bayes expire tokens

[Julian Field]

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Chris Conn wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am still facing problems with Bayes token expiry.  In my
> MailScanner.conf file, I have:
>
> Rebuild Bayes Every = 86400
>
> and
>
> Wait During Bayes Rebuild = yes
>
> in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf I have:
>
> bayes_auto_expire 0
>
> in /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf I have:
>
> bayes_path                 /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin/bayes
> bayes_file_mode            0600
> use_bayes 1
> bayes_auto_expire 0  (again, since it did not seem to be working in
> local.cf)
>
> I am using MailScanner 4.37.7, which supposedly has resolved this issue,
> yet in /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin/, I have
>
>   121533 Mar  8 16:00 bayes_journal
> 335876096 Mar  8 15:59 bayes_seen
> 21909504 Mar  8 15:59 bayes_toks
>  5976064 Mar  7 22:03 bayes_toks.expire11073
>  9482240 Mar  8 00:44 bayes_toks.expire1211
> 10518528 Mar  7 22:13 bayes_toks.expire12709
> 10121216 Mar  7 22:19 bayes_toks.expire13541
>  9842688 Mar  7 22:24 bayes_toks.expire14207
> 10113024 Mar  7 22:30 bayes_toks.expire15013
> 10076160 Mar  7 22:35 bayes_toks.expire15666
>  9781248 Mar  7 22:40 bayes_toks.expire16569
>  9904128 Mar  7 22:46 bayes_toks.expire17311
>  9678848 Mar  7 22:51 bayes_toks.expire18116
>  9682944 Mar  7 22:56 bayes_toks.expire18905
>  9478144 Mar  8 00:50 bayes_toks.expire1958
>  9756672 Mar  7 23:01 bayes_toks.expire19619
>  9773056 Mar  7 23:07 bayes_toks.expire20537
>  9789440 Mar  7 23:13 bayes_toks.expire21248
>  9883648 Mar  7 23:18 bayes_toks.expire22052
>  9482240 Mar  7 23:23 bayes_toks.expire22802
>  9449472 Mar  7 23:28 bayes_toks.expire23494
>  9531392 Mar  7 23:34 bayes_toks.expire24158
>  9486336 Mar  7 23:39 bayes_toks.expire24781
>  9474048 Mar  7 23:44 bayes_toks.expire25327
>  9486336 Mar  8 00:55 bayes_toks.expire2551
>  9465856 Mar  7 23:49 bayes_toks.expire25930
>  5263360 Mar  7 23:55 bayes_toks.expire26710
>  9469952 Mar  8 00:00 bayes_toks.expire27390
>  9482240 Mar  8 00:06 bayes_toks.expire28351
>  9465856 Mar  8 00:12 bayes_toks.expire29198
>  9469952 Mar  8 00:17 bayes_toks.expire30081
>  9469952 Mar  8 00:22 bayes_toks.expire30748
>  9490432 Mar  8 00:27 bayes_toks.expire31316
>  9482240 Mar  8 01:01 bayes_toks.expire3174
>  9486336 Mar  8 00:33 bayes_toks.expire31978
>  9469952 Mar  8 01:06 bayes_toks.expire3845
>  9465856 Mar  8 01:11 bayes_toks.expire4458
>  9482240 Mar  8 00:39 bayes_toks.expire460
>  5263360 Mar  8 01:16 bayes_toks.expire5055
>  9469952 Mar  8 01:22 bayes_toks.expire5617
>  9469952 Mar  8 01:28 bayes_toks.expire6292
>  9465856 Mar  8 01:34 bayes_toks.expire6996
>  9465856 Mar  8 01:40 bayes_toks.expire7772
>  9469952 Mar  8 01:45 bayes_toks.expire8319
>  9474048 Mar  8 01:51 bayes_toks.expire9002
>  9486336 Mar  8 01:57 bayes_toks.expire9720
>
> Here is what my logs have to say for yesterday's expiry:
>
> Mar  7 21:58:12 mx2 MailScanner[10568]: Bayes database rebuild is due
> Mar  7 21:58:12 mx2 MailScanner[10568]: SpamAssassin Bayes database
> rebuild preparing
> Mar  7 21:58:12 mx2 MailScanner[10568]: SpamAssassin Bayes database
> rebuild starting
> Mar  7 21:59:38 mx2 MailScanner[10568]: SpamAssassin Bayes database
> rebuild completed
> Mar  7 21:59:38 mx2 MailScanner[10568]: Rebuilding SpamAssassin Bayes
> database
>
> What I find curious is the log message "Rebuilding SpamAssassin Bayes
> database", which comes _after_ the completed message???

It comes from a call in line 165 of SA.pm. You can safely just comment
it out, I can't see why that line is there.

> Am I doing something wrong?  I have read and re-read the docs regarding
> this and I have never been able to not have these annoying expire files
> appear.

Very good question. I don't know the answer to that one at the moment.

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