Some Messages Double Scanned

[Julian Field]

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A couple of (okay, 3) points.
If you decide to scrap the Bayes db, then you can get a good "starter"
database from www.fsl.com/support.

4.50 has fixed problems with MailScanner doing the expiry run itself. So
you can just let MailScanner handle the job for you.

I would add a delay after the "service MailScanner stop" for, say, 30 to
60 seconds to give it time to shutdown as it may have locks on the file
still in use when it runs the sa-learn.

On 12 Jan 2006, at 15:39, chardlist wrote:

      Some more information.  It seems like the bayes rule checks
      are what is causing the problem.

       

      I have had a cron job that runs every week to execute the
      following commands to rebuild the bayes files and clear out
      old tokens.

       

      service MailScanner stop

      then...

      /usr/bin/sa-learn -C
      /usr/mailscanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --force-expire

      then...

      chown mailnull:nobody /usr/mailscanner/bayes/bayes_*

      and finally...

      service MailScanner start

       

      The commands above are all executing just fine, but what
      I^Òve noticed is that the bayes_seen file does not reduce in
      size as it normally has done.  The bayes_toks file does get
      smaller as I would expect and has grown to 42MB.

       

      What^Òs the best way to proceed from here?  Should I can the
      bayes files and have it start rebuilding from scratch, or is
      there a way to get them all working again?

       

      Thanks,

      -Brendan

       

       

       

      -----Original Message-----
      From: MailScanner mailing list
      [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of chardlist
      Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 5:30 AM
      To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
      Subject: Some Messages Double Scanned

       

      I'm noticing that some messages are getting double-scanned by
      MailScanner.

      Any thoughts on this?  Here are headers from a sample
      message.

       

      X-ChardNet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin
      (score=3.593,

            required 5, DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06 0.07, HTML_50_60 0.10,

            HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, MIME_HTML_MOSTLY 0.28,
      MPART_ALT_DIFF 1.50,

            RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 1.49, RAZOR2_CHECK 0.15), not
      spam,

      SpamAssassin (score=3.199,

            required 5, BAYES_50 0.00, DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06 1.96,

            HTML_50_60 0.13, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, MIME_HTML_MOSTLY
      1.10)

      X-ChardNet-MailScanner-SpamScore: 3, 3

       

       

      I'm running MailScanner 4.47.4 on Redhat 9 with Exim 4.52

       

       

      Thanks for any assistance,

       

      -Brendan


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