bayes expire questions

[Denis Beauchemin]

Dave Filchak a écrit :
> I have been trying to figure out the best way to handle 
> bayes_toks.expire files. I have a large number of them in my bayes 
> directory (about 1.8 Gb worth) and was trying to understand if it was 
> OK to delete them. Turns out that it appears as though it is ok but 
> their presence in my bayes directory could indicate another issue with 
> my MailScanner set-up (this is on my secondary mail server so it sees 
> most of the spam). This 'issue' appears to be that it is taking too 
> long to expire the old records so MailScanner thinks it is hung and 
> restarts??? So, based on some of the reading I did in the archives, I 
> turned of auto_expire in my spam.assassin.prefs file and upped the 
> expire value in my MailScanner.conf file to one day (86400). However, 
> upon further investigation, I noted that many simply turn this feature 
> off in both places and run sa-learn --rebuild --force-expire from a 
> cron job. J
>
> Just curious what most of you do? Which is better? We do not have 
> overly busy mail servers ... about 10K per day average.
>
> thanks
>
> Dave
Dave,

I run the following on all my MS boxes:
15 3 * * * (/sbin/service MailScanner stop; /usr/bin/sa-learn 
--force-expire;/sbin/service MailScanner start) 2>&1

Denis

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