[Gllug] Continued spamassassin strangeness

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 17:42, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 
> >I rebuilt these and got my spamassassin to learn what was spam and what
> >was ham (shameless plug: http://junkcomputers.blogspot.com/ tells you
> >more).
> >
> 
> This is not really useful.  You want SA to learn about your entire 
> overall mail throughput, not just the stuff that ends up in one 
> mailbox.  Just wipe your bayes db and let it autolearn from scratch.  
> You may also want to use greylisting, that _really_ helps when it comes 
> to cutting out spam.
> 

The problem is getting it to do the learning. An examination of my logs
shows what the problem seems to be...

Dec 24 18:14:54 flare spamd[21384]: cannot write to
/root/.spamassassin/bayes_journal, Bayes db update ignored


But changing the permissions and owner of the file doesn't seem to have
made any difference :( So there is clearly a level of sophistication
involved here that I haven't yet found.

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