MailScanner and Spamassassin

[Kevin Miller]

I think it's normally a hidden directory under /root.  Been so long since I installed from scratch though that I could be wrong.  I put it under /etc/MailScanner/bayes - be sure to review the instructions in MailScanner.conf on permissions and such.  There's a "use bayes" setting in spamassassin.prefs.conf - make sure it's not set to zero.

 ...Kevin
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Kevin Miller
Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept.
155 South Seward Street
Juneau, Alaska 99801
Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4500
Registered Linux User No: 307357
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Mike Watson
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 2:47 PM
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Subject: Re: MailScanner and Spamassassin

I just noticed no bayes directory was created during the MS install. Is that normal?

mw


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On 10/19/2012 05:39 PM, Kevin Miller wrote:
Yeah, you definitely should.  Lots of training bound up in the old database.  Also, IIRC, bayes doesn't kick in until it sees 200 hams and 200 spams, so there's a period where it's learning but not contributing.  Or something along those lines...

 ...Kevin
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Kevin Miller
Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept.
155 South Seward Street
Juneau, Alaska 99801
Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4500
Registered Linux User No: 307357
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info<mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Mike Watson
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 2:03 PM
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Subject: Re: MailScanner and Spamassassin

New box I didn't copy the database but it's an idea.

Thanks,  mw



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On 10/19/2012 03:17 PM, Kevin Miller wrote:
My understanding is that you use sa-learn to train the database.  If you get a false positive you feed it to spamassassin as non-spam.  If spam slips through, you feed it back to spamassassin as spam.  I expect sa-learn is also called during the scanning process in the background.   I don't think you need to do anything special w/your users unless a message is mis-tagged.  The previous bayes database should be still working and being updated...

 ...Kevin
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Kevin Miller
Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept.
155 South Seward Street
Juneau, Alaska 99801
Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4500
Registered Linux User No: 307357
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info<mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Mike Watson
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 11:49 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: MailScanner and Spamassassin

I suppose this is more a Spamassassin question than MailScanner but I'll ask anyway.

I've just finished setting up a mailserver using CentOS 6.3, Dovecot, sendmail, and MailScanner-Spamassassin. This is an upgrade from an older linux server that also ran an older version of MailScanner-Spamassassin.

I know SA runs sa-update via cron. That's working. But...is it necessary to run sa-learn for each user as well to detect SPAM that gets through MailScanner?  There has to be a reason for sa-learn or it wouldn't be included in the SA package. I do have Baynes activated for SA.

Is there any reason to run sa-learn on the spam files?

mw




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