BAYES_00 is killing me

[Glenn Steen]

2008/6/16 Devon Harding <devonharding at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        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* 3.2.4. <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* 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    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
>>>
>>> --
>>
>> 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
>
>
> Hmm....I thing Bayes IS working.  I just ran MailScanner --debug --debug-sa
> after the restore and did see:
>
> 11:52:13 [5879] dbg: bayes: tie-ing to DB file R/W
> /root/.spamassassin/bayes_toks
> 11:52:13 [5879] dbg: bayes: tie-ing to DB file R/W
> /root/.spamassassin/bayes_seen
> 11:52:13 [5879] dbg: bayes: found bayes db version 3
> 11:52:13 [5879] dbg: bayes: learned
> '88a47a16459989c19d47893de31fec608aa8f41e at sa_generated', atime: 1213631520
> 11:52:13 [5879] dbg: bayes: untie-ing
> 11:52:13 [5879] dbg: bayes: files locked, now unlocking lock
>
> It seems that MailWatch is the one thats not working right.  Any way to
> relink this?
>
> -Devon
>
Make sure your apahce user (the one running your httpd processes...
hence the one running MailWatch:-) can actually read the bayes
files... "su" is your friend here... and if you want to be able to
learn via MailWatch, make sure the same user can write them too.

Cheers
-- 
-- Glenn
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