BAYES_00 is killing me

[Stephen Swaney]

Devon Harding wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Denis Beauchemin 
> <Denis.Beauchemin at usherbrooke.ca 
> <mailto:Denis.Beauchemin at usherbrooke.ca>> wrote:
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>     Devon Harding a écrit :
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>
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>         On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Devon Harding
>         <devonharding at gmail.com <mailto:devonharding at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:devonharding at gmail.com
>         <mailto:devonharding at gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>
>                Devon Harding wrote:
>                | I'm getting alot of spam coming through and it seems like
>                the cause of
>                | this is BAYES_00 scoring messages with -2.60.  I'm
>         running
>                MS 4.68.8
>                | with SA *Le Service des Technologies de l'Information de
>                l'UdeS veut vous mettre en garde contre "3.2.4" qui semble
>                être une tentative de fraude envers* *MailScanner
>         warning: numerical links are often malicious:* 3.2.4.
>         <http://3.2.4.> <*MailScanner warning: numerical links are
>         often malicious:* http://3.2.4.>
>                <*Le Service des Technologies de l'Information de
>         l'UdeS veut
>                vous mettre en garde contre "3.2.4" qui semble être une
>                tentative de fraude envers* *MailScanner warning:
>         numerical links are often malicious:* http://3.2.4.>  I've
>         already
>
>                trained hundreds of
>
>                | messages like these as spam and it doesn't seem to work.
>                 What else can
>                | I do?
>
>                My guess is that you are training the wrong database. You
>                train another
>                database and not the one you are using with MailScanner.
>
>                Hugo.
>
>
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>            For MS, where is the Bayes DB path specified?  My DB is
>         located here:
>
>            /etc/MailScanner/.spamassassin
>
>
>         I think my BAYES is  all messed up.  How do I rebuild it from
>         scratch?
>
>     Devon,
>
>     Look here for a starter kit: http://www.fsl.com/resources.html
>
>     Denis
>
>     -- 
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>
>
> I've restored the starter DB and I do see the new files in 
> /etc/MailScanner/.spamassassin (I stopped MailScanner and removed the 
> one ones first), but SA Bayes DB Info from Mailwatch shows nothing.  
> When I do a lint from the Tools tab, i Get the following:
>
> [5637] dbg: bayes: no dbs present, cannot tie DB R/O: 
> //.spamassassin/bayes_toks

Look in /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf for the location of 
the Bayes database. Note that this "file" may actually be a link to a 
file in another location.

Best Regards,

Steve

Steve Swaney
steve at fsl.com
www.fsl.com