[Sussex] help wanted with Spamassassin BAYES setup

[Iain Stevenson]

I remember having "fun" with this.  On my system the Bayes stuff runs from 
the home directory of the SpamAssassin process. Maybe you need to look 
there.

I find that BAYES does not report for every email.

  Iain


--On Sunday, November 7, 2004 12:16 pm +0000 Tony Austin <tony at gigaday.com> 
wrote:

> Can anyone help please.
>
> I have had SA running for some time and it works fine with the non-BAYES
> tests,  I have now tried to implement BAYES but it does not seem to be
> working - I am expecting to see BAYES_00 test showing for all messages but
> it doesn't, nor do any messages get detected as spam with the BAYES test.
>
> These are what I think are the important parts of my setup:-
>
> - Spamassassin v2.64
> - running spamd daemonized
> - bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin in local.cf
> - bayes_file_mode 0666 in local.cf
> - files bayes_seen and bayes_toks in /etc/mail/spamassassin with 0777
> - I created bayes_seen and bayes_toks with sa-learn on _lots_  of spam and
> ham, much more than the 200 of each required I think
> - when I run #spamassassin -D --lint I get a message "bayes: no dbs
> present, cannot scan /etc/mail/spamassassin_toks"; according to the web
> site this is normal (don't understand why) but in any event I have made
> copies of bayes_toks as spamassassin_toks
>
> I can't find anything else useful on the Spamassassin web site so, any
> ideas would be welcome.
>
>
>
>
> Regards.
>
> Tony Austin
> Gigaday Computing Limited
> http://www.gigaday.com
> tony at gigaday.com
>
>
>
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