Spam Assassin Doesn't Seem To Be Learning

[Quintin S. Giesbrecht]

Thanks, that was it.  Needed to run as postfix user.  I think it should work from now on :)

Thanks again,

Q

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From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces+q=snj.ca at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Mark Sapiro
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 12:38 PM
To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
Subject: Re: Spam Assassin Doesn't Seem To Be Learning

On 09/14/2017 09:29 AM, Quintin S. Giesbrecht wrote:
> It seems that SpamAssassin is not learning. When I run sa-learn --spam
> on an email, it says it learned from 1 message, etc…but if another
> message comes through that is identical, the spam score remains the
> same.  Any idea what I did wrong?


It's sensitive to the user id that runs it (every user has its own bayes data). You have to ensure you run sa-learn as the user that MailScanner runs as. Using the -u/--username option to sa-learn isn't enough.

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