bayes DB not growing

[RedRed!com IT Department]

You should probably manually run sa-learn on 200 spam emails and
subsequently 200 ham emails so that the bayes db will then start being used.

HTH,

Sean Smith
IT Administrator
RedRed!com <http://www.redred.com/>

Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:

>That is a good link.  On my mailwatch, I look at the spam messages and I
>do see this a lot:
>Autolearn=spam
>
>I also see that some messages do not have a autolearn=
>I am guessing that it was not autolearned because from the link, it said
>that a message needs 3 points from the header and 3 points from the body
>to be autolearned.
>
>When I do a spamassassin -D --lint.  I get:
>debug: bayes: found bayes db version 3
>debug: using "/root/.spamassassin" for user state dir
>debug: bayes: Not available for scanning, only 0 spam(s) in Bayes DB <
>200
>
>So mine says that there are only 0 spams.  Does this mean that I need to
>fix something?
>
>
>Billy Pumphrey
>IT Manager
>Wooden & McLaughlin
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Raylund Lai [mailto:raylund.lai at KANKANWOO.COM]
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:59 AM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: bayes DB not growing
>>
>>have a look on this link to see whether it answer your question.
>>http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutolearningNotWorking
>>
>>Cheers
>>Raylund
>>
>>Arif Malik wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I have a new installation of mailscanner, and for the last few days
>>>
>>>
>I
>
>
>>>keep noticing the following message:
>>>
>>>debug: bayes: Not available for scanning, only 0 spam(s) in Bayes DB
>>>
>>>
><
>
>
>>200
>>
>>
>>>now today, it has finally changed to: debug: bayes: Not available
>>>
>>>
>for
>
>
>>>scanning, only 1 spam(s) in Bayes DB < 200
>>>but there has been quite a few spams that have gone through, and
>>>
>>>
>have
>
>
>>>been marked as spam, and i see "autolearn=spam" in the log.
>>>
>>>
>shouldn't
>
>
>>>these be added to the bayes DB?? here is the rest of that part of
>>>
>>>
>the
>
>
>>>log that deals with bayes:
>>>
>>>debug: bayes: 2357 tie-ing to DB file R/O
>>>/home/exim/.spamassassin/bayes_toks
>>>debug: bayes: 2357 tie-ing to DB file R/O
>>>/home/exim/.spamassassin/bayes_seen
>>>debug: bayes: found bayes db version 3
>>>debug: bayes: Not available for scanning, only 1 spam(s) in Bayes DB
>>>
>>>
><
>
>
>>200
>>
>>
>>>debug: bayes: 2357 untie-ing
>>>debug: bayes: 2357 untie-ing db_toks
>>>debug: bayes: 2357 untie-ing db_seen
>>>debug: Score set 1 chosen.
>>>
>>>any idea what i might be doing wrong ? it is odd to me that 1 email
>>>did finally end up in the bayes db... thanks for any help!!!
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