[solved] SA bayes not working / autolearn inactive?

[Julian Field]

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That one is definitely worth documenting.
Please can you add it to the wiki?
wiki.mailscanner.info


Daniel Maher wrote:
> Thanks to everybody for your suggestions.
> 
> I stopped MailScanner, and went through the directory tree manually, picking it over with a fine-toothed comb (as it were).  I found that the parent directory of the bayes data directory did not have it's execute bit set for the group - only for the user.
> 
> On the functioning mail servers, this group x bit was set.  Voila.
> 
> After making this change and re-starting MailScanner, SpamAssassin is now happily reading from and writing to the bayes database, and autolearn is active.
> 
> Sometimes the best solutions are the most simple. :P
> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Daniel Maher
>> Sent: August 23, 2006 11:24 AM
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: RE: SA bayes not working / autolearn inactive?
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Green, Rodney
>>> Sent: August 22, 2006 12:34 PM
>>> To: MailScanner discussion
>>> Subject: Re: SA bayes not working / autolearn inactive?
>>>
>>> I didn't see anything in your original posting saying that you populated
>>> the bayes db to try it. Also, the lint output you posted says that it
>>> does not meet the threshold requirement.
>>>
>> Thanks for the reply,
>>
>> I have since populated the bayes DB (via sa-learn backup/restore) from one
>> of the functioning mail servers.  A lint check now shows this:
>> ---
>> [19182] dbg: bayes: DB journal sync: last sync: 1156345626
>> [19182] dbg: bayes: corpus size: nspam = 5507601, nham = 1761804
>> ---
>>
>> As before, my learning threshold config line is:
>> ---
>> bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam         12
>> ---
>>
>> Take, for example, the following mail which passed through a few moments
>> ago:
>> ---
>> Aug 23 15:14:05 yosemite MailScanner[18668]: Message 593C069B0A.6BE83 from
>> 222.35.236.81 (offjskcjacpiz at yahoo.co.kr) to ubisoft.com is spam,
>> SpamAssassin (score=31.401, required 6, DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_XX 1.89,
>> DATE_SPAMWARE_Y2K 1.82, FORGED_IMS_HTML 2.27, FORGED_IMS_TAGS 2.12,
>> FORGED_MUA_IMS 1.20, FROM_ILLEGAL_CHARS 3.28, FROM_LOCAL_NOVOWEL 2.33,
>> HTML_MESSAGE 0.50, HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG 0.51, MIME_BOUND_DD_DIGITS 3.60,
>> MIME_HTML_ONLY 0.00, MIME_HTML_ONLY_MULTI 0.00, MISSING_MIMEOLE 1.39,
>> MPART_ALT_DIFF 0.14, MSGID_SPAM_CAPS 3.52, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO 1.25,
>> REPTO_QUOTE_IMS 0.00, SARE_RECV_IP_222032 2.22, SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS 3.36,
>> UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.00)
>> ---
>>
>> Clearly, this email meets the threshold for autolearning; however, there
>> is no autolearn string to be found, and the access times on the bayes
>> database do /not/ change.
>>
>> Any further input is more than welcome.
>>
>>
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