I'm confused about my bayes expiration steps

[Steve Campbell]

I don't understand why, but that fixed it.

Thanks.

steve

Martin Hepworth wrote:
> Steve
>
> delete the bayes info, let it rebuild itself, no worries :-)
>
> On 23 March 2010 20:05, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com 
> <mailto:campbell at cnpapers.com>> wrote:
>
>     One of those tests that I never run unless there's a problem is
>     the SpamAssassin Bayes Database Info from withing MailWatch. So I
>     ran it today just for the heck of it. All of my data seems to
>     indicate nothing has happened since around May, 2008.
>
>     Looking at my files in /etc/MailScanner/bayes shows the files are
>     being updated properly.
>
>     But the bayes_seen file is getting a little large. So going
>     through the MS.conf file, I find I rebuild bayes once a day. I
>     look in my spam.assassin.prefs.conf file and a comment say I
>     expire by a cron job. I can't find the cron job to see if it's
>     working.
>
>     So I see a few problems:
>
>     MW isn't pointing to a proper set of bayes files.
>     MS must not be set up right to either rebuild or expire my bayes
>     files.
>     I must not have moved something for that cron file to exist.
>
>     I'm running version 4.75.11. Everything seems to run OK, but I got
>     a feeling I'm going to hit a bump in the road on that bayes_seen
>     file one day.
>
>     Any thoughts, anyone?
>
>
>     thanks
>
>     steve campbell
>
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