Expired records from the SpamAssassin cache

[Martin Hepworth]

Dan

No - this a a newish feature where MS keeps its own cache of recent spam
hashes. Its a lot quicker to look in this system than replay the entire
message through SA. If it finds a hit it gets marked as spam, if not it
proceeds to run SA. MS keeps this info for about 1 hour (varies) and the
expires you are seeing are 'old' records being deleted from MS cache.

Given most people get more spam than ham now-adays this technique can
dramtically increase speed of processing (anywhere up to 10x).

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Martin Hepworth 
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Dan Carl
> Sent: 06 June 2006 14:59
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Expired records from the SpamAssassin cache
> 
> Since a recent upgrade I am getting log entires like this:
>     Expired 1 records from the SpamAssassin cache : 80 Time(s)
> 
> Can some explain what they are?
> 
> If my memory serves me right I this happened on a previous version and
> I fixed it by adding this cronjob.
> 30 0 * * * /usr/bin/sa-learn --force-expire
> Do I still need to do this?
> Thanks,
> ps
> New Website looks very professional!
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