Fun with my own spamassassin filter: slow reacting?

[Denis Beauchemin]

Mauricio Tavares a écrit :
> Randal, Phil wrote:
>> The old score was being cached in MailScanner's spamassassin results
>> cache.
>>
>     Aha. Is there a way to flush it, so it is forced to read the new 
> values in?
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Phil
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of
>> Mauricio Tavares
>> Sent: 01 September 2009 14:18
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: Fun with my own spamassassin filter: slow reacting?
>>
>>
>>     Trying to write a filter that would look for a header beginning
>> with a specific text and give me a score based on that. So, after
>> reading http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules I edit
>> spam.assassin.prefs.conf and add the following:
>>
>> header LOCAL_TEST Test-Header =~ /Strange Pork/ score LOCAL_TEST  -1.000
>>
>> then reload MailScanner and send a test email with that header. I check
>> the header and it seems to have found the header and graded it as it
>> should:
>>
>> not spam, SpamAssassin (cached, score=1.694,    required 4.7,
>> BASE64_LENGTH_79_INF 1.50, BAYES_05 -1.11,    FH_HELO_ENDS_DOT 2.31,
>> LOCAL_TEST -1.00)
>>
>> So, just for the fun of it, I decrease the score to -3, reload
>> MailScanner, and send the test email. I am still getting -1 as the score
>> for LOCAL_TEST. I try restarting it and get the same results.
>>
>> Today, I try it again, not having touched the mail server since that
>> last attempt. Now it properly reports the new score for LOCAL_TEST:
>>
>> not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-0.306,    required 4.7,
>> BASE64_LENGTH_79_INF 1.50, BAYES_05 -1.11,    FH_HELO_ENDS_DOT 2.31,
>> LOCAL_TEST -3.00)
>>
>> Is it me who missed some step here or it is just slow to update itself?
>>
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Mauricio,

Look at MailScanner.conf for this line and delete that file and then 
restart MS (I'm not sure if a reload would be enough):
SpamAssassin Cache Database File = 
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin.cache.db

Denis

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