BAYES issues

[Anthony Peacock]

Anthony Peacock wrote:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> I know I use SQL for my Bayes set up.
> 
> There was nothing in the original debug output from the OP that made me 
> think that he was using SQL for his Bayes database.
> 

Doh! Other than the first sentence stating that he had followed the 
instructions for setting up Bayes over SQL.

Must try reading first...

-- 
Anthony Peacock
CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
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