MailScanner + Spamassassin 3.13 autolearn not working !

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

Have you looked at mailscanner.cf?

Joni Bäcklund wrote:
>
> Hello Friends !
>
> I have been running SA for years with mailscanner and some virus 
> scanning software on our
> mail linux fedora server. This server now runs FC5 and I found out 
> some two weeks ago
> that bayes database was somehow corrupted so I did go for
> fresh mysql bayes database and learned some thousands of saved ham and 
> spam messages.
> Everything seems to be on order now and I see bayes hits on maillog
> as usual.
>
> The problems seems to be that SA never does autolearn even the spam 
> value is very high (
> like 15 or so ). So the bayes data stays permanent if I do not
> train some messages manually by sa-learn.
>
> I have tested also the system so that I used the normal bayes DB on 
> /var/spool/spamassassin instead of mysql with same bayes data ! Same 
> behavior !
>
> I never see on the maillog the autolearn=spam ham or disabled. No 
> autolearn markings at all ! The Autolearn
> module is loaded and everything else seems to be running ok. The same 
> happens with
> autowhitelist. No entries are made to auto-whitelist ! That seems 
> strange. The autowhitelist file itself is at /var/spool/spamassassin 
> but its allways same size and does not grow !
>
> Im running spamassassin 3.1.3
> perl-5.8.8
> mailscanner-4.55.7-1
>
> and here are some lines from spam.assassin.prefs.conf that mailscanner 
> uses with SA.
>
>
> #
> # JKF 28/04/2003
> # The following settings has been pretty much superceded by the "Advanced
> # SpamAssassin Settings" in MailScanner.conf.
> #
> # JKF 26/03/2003
> # If your root filesystem is filling up because SpamAssassin is putting
> # large databases in /.spamassassin or /root/.spamassassin, you can move
> # them using the following lines to point to their new locations.
> # The last part of the path is not a directory name, but actually the
> # start of the filenames. So with the settings below, the Bayes files 
> will
> # be created as /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes_msgcount, etc.
> #
> auto_whitelist_path        /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist
> auto_whitelist_file_mode   0600
> use_auto_whitelist      1
> #bayes_path                 /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes
> #bayes_file_mode            0600
> bayes_store_module      Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::SQL
> bayes_sql_dsn           DBI:mysql:sa_bayes:localhost
> bayes_sql_username      XXXX
> bayes_sql_password      XXXXX
> bayes_sql_override_username XXXX
>
>
> # Most people don't use NFS-shared Bayes databases
> # so this is added for SpamAssassin 3
> lock_method flock
> required_hits 4.5
> bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 8.0
> bayes_auto_learn 1
> score  BAYES_99          0 0 4.070 3.601
>
> # Most people don't use NFS-shared Bayes databases
> # so this is added for SpamAssassin 3
> lock_method flock
>
>
> The spamassassin -D --lint works without any problems and all required 
> modules are loaded !
>
> Are there some undocumented changes in autolearn behavior with 
> mailscanner ?
>
> here is sa-learn --dump magic output
> 0.000          0          3          0  non-token data: bayes db version
> 0.000          0       5486          0  non-token data: nspam
> 0.000          0       7142          0  non-token data: nham
> 0.000          0     187972          0  non-token data: ntokens
> 0.000          0 1036499585          0  non-token data: oldest atime
> 0.000          0 1151841259          0  non-token data: newest atime
> 0.000          0          0          0  non-token data: last journal 
> sync atime
> 0.000          0 1151833489          0  non-token data: last expiry atime
> 0.000          0   22118400          0  non-token data: last expire 
> atime delta
> 0.000          0      16694          0  non-token data: last expire 
> reduction count
>
>
> So I just do not understand what is going wrong there as the SA with 
> mailscanner system
> has been workin for years and autolearn etc. has been working
> nicely too !
>
> Joni
>
>
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