bayes DB not growing

[Martin Hepworth]

Billy

depends where you have the bayes_path set to in
spam.assassin.prefs.conf. Try....

spamassassin -D --lint -p <path-to>/spam.assassin.prefs.conf

spam.assassin.prefs.conf in the same directory as MailScanner.conf

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Martin Hepworth
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Solid State Logic
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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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