BAYES issues

[Jay Chandler]

Anthony Peacock wrote:
> Glenn Steen wrote:
>> On 16/02/07, Anthony Peacock <a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> Jay Chandler wrote:
>>> > Jay Chandler wrote:
>>> >> <snip>What's more is, I got that output from crontab, running the
>>> >> command as the postfix user...
>>> >>
>>> >> So I'm... rather confused.  What should Bayes be showing as in my 
>>> logs?
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Interesting.
>>> >
>>> > Just linted and got this:
>>> > config: warning: score set for non-existent rule BAYES_99
>>> > config: warning: score set for non-existent rule BAYES_95
>>> > config: warning: score set for non-existent rule BAYES_00
>>> > config: warning: score set for non-existent rule BAYES_05
>>> >
>>> > Is there a Bayes ruleset file that I'm potentially missing?
>>> >
>>>
>>> Hmm!  That does look like you have a screwed up SA configuration.
>>>
>>> Those are standard rules that come with SA, so if they are missing you
>>> have a bad installation.
>>>
>>> The standard rule file with the Bayes rules in is called 23_bayes.cf
>>>
>>> It should be installed in /usr/local/share/spamassassin
>>>
>>> If you run sa-update you may also have a newer copy in
>>>
>>> /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org  (or similar
>>> depending on SA version)
>>>
>>> I am still confused, as you seemed to be able to get a Bayes score when
>>> running from the command line, but not when running with MailScanner.
>>>
>>> There must be something different with the environments between 
>>> those two.
>>>
>> I'd suspect the settings in MailScanner for things like "SpamAssassin
>> Local State Dir" to be wrong. Since Jays SpamAssassin seems to get
>> along famously without any particular setting, I think he should try
>> setting that to a blank value (so that the "built-into-SA-defaults"
>> kick in, wrt finding the sa-updated stuff), and if that fails set it
>> to something like /var/lib/spamassassin (but only if it still fails).
>
> That was my initial thought.  But even if that is set incorrectly 
> shouldn't SA 'fall back' on the base installed versions in 
> /usr/local/share?
>
> Checking that setting will certainly help.
>
Just fixed a couple path settings-- now I find that the modified rules I 
put in the directory that's shared by all the MX boxes are being 
supplanted by the /usr/local/share/spamassassin rules.  For example:  I 
set the URIBL score to 6, but now hits on that rule are getting scored a 
3.  How do I fix this?


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Jay Chandler
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