BAYES_00 is killing me

[Devon Harding]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> --


I have the right permissions set, the thing is MailWatch is not showing any
data for 'Bayes Database Information'.  What is the tie in for MailWatch?

-rw-rw---- 1 root apache  78K Jun 16 15:17 bayes_journal
-rw-rw---- 1 root apache  895 Jun 16 15:17 bayes.mutex
-rw-rw---- 1 root apache 172K Jun 16 15:17 bayes_seen
-rw-rw---- 1 root apache 5.1M Jun 16 15:17 bayes_toks

-Devon
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