How do you know if Spam Assassin is using bayes?

[Kyle Schmitt]

OK.  It's all working now!

For some reason perl was missing it's DBFile library.  Installed that,
changed some permissions and then it was all happy.

The impressive thing is, it was doing a pretty good job of blocking
spam _before_ the bayes filter was on.  I'll have to see what the
improvement is now that it's going too.

Thanks
--Kyle


On Jan 25, 2008 2:57 AM, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25/01/2008, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> > on 1/24/2008 3:27 PM Kyle Schmitt spake the following:
> > > It sounds like a silly question, but how do you know if SA is using
> > > the bayes filter?
> > > After reviewing and editing the config files, I don't see anything
> > > being created in the directory that the bayes db is supposed to be in.
> > > How do you really check?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >       Kyle
> > You can always run "spamassassin -D --lint and look for the lines with "dbg:
> > bayes" in them like this;
> >
> > [14537] dbg: bayes: tie-ing to DB file R/O /etc/MailScanner/bayes/bayes_toks
> > [14537] dbg: bayes: tie-ing to DB file R/O /etc/MailScanner/bayes/bayes_seen
> > [14537] dbg: bayes: found bayes db version 3
> > [14537] dbg: bayes: DB journal sync: last sync: 1201217727
> >
> >
> Yep. If nothing is created there (and do remember that bayes_path
> isn't supposed to be a directory only, it is the absolute path to a
> directory _and the "starting fragment" of the filename the files are
> supposed to have_), it likely means you have a permission problem
> solve:-). The dubug lint that Scott suggests will show this nicely;-).
>
> Cheers
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> -- Glenn
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