BAYES issues

[Scott Silva]

Anthony Peacock spake the following on 2/15/2007 11:38 AM:
> Jay Chandler wrote:
>> Anthony Peacock wrote:
>>> This message got a BAYES_20 score.  Your SA is using Bayes correctly.
>>>
>>> Why don't you think it is working?
>>
>> aconcagua# cat /var/log/maillog |grep BAYES
>> Feb 15 01:24:24 aconcagua MailScanner[57909]: Message A60174554E.EC45D
>> from 65.54.246.232 (bf1997 at hotmail.fr) to chapman.edu is spam,
>> SpamAssassin (not cached, score=8.308, required 6, SARE_BAYES_5x7
>> 0.60, SARE_FRAUD_X3 1.67, SARE_FRAUD_X4 1.67, SARE_FRAUD_X5 1.67,
>> SARE_FRAUD_X6 1.67, SARE_MILLIONSOF 0.32, SARE_URGBIZ 0.72)
>> Feb 15 05:44:29 aconcagua MailScanner[98220]: Message 55C7A455C4.48148
>> from 146.142.40.232 (bounce-ximpim-351275 at list.bls.gov) to chapman.edu
>> is not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=3.5, required 6,
>> MANGLED_MEDS 2.30, SARE_BAYES_5x7 0.60, SARE_BAYES_6x7 0.60)
>> aconcagua#
>>
>> This is for approximately ten thousand messages since six hours ago.
>>
>> Do I need a Bayes rule that defines scores for each level?  I'm not
>> sure I have one by default...
> 
> In which case I suspect that you have a working Bayes for whichever user
> you run the command line tests as, but not for the user which
> MailScanner runs as.
> 
> Which user did you log in as to run the SA command line tests?
> 
> Which user does MailScanner run as?
> 
> By default SA will use different Bayes databases for different users. So
> if MailScanner runs as root it will use root's Bayes database, if you
> then run the SA command line as user jaychandler it will use that user's
> database.
> 
But in sql, you need to just have the proper username in the
bayes_sql_override_username setting, and it should work.

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