[Mimedefang] bayes filter setup

[Alexander Dalloz]

> > > Anyone know how to setup the bayes learning filter ? I am
> 
> > SA needs to know where you store the bayes files. So for 
> example edit 
> > /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and define bayes_path 
> > /var/spool/MD-Quarantine/bayes.
> > 
> > If you want mimedefang to use bayes filter autolearning set up
> > 
> > use_bayes 1
> > auto_learn 1
> > bayes_file_mode 0700
> 
> (why mode 0700?  It is 0600 by default).

Oh, you are right. My files indeed have mode 600.
 
> > bayes_path /var/spool/MD-Quarantine/bayes
> > 
> > in /etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-mimedefang.cf.
> 
> Soon after I updated to the first version of spamassassin 
> that used bayes filtering, this directory appeared containing 
> the files bayes_msgcount bayes_seen and bayes_toks...
> 
>   /var/spool/MIMEDefang/.spamassassin/
> 
> (This happened because /var/spool/MIMEDefang is the home 
> directory for the defang user).
> 
> So it seems that bayes is already enabled by default, and the 
> default bayes_path of ~/.spamassassin/ is fine for mimedefang 
> (depending on the defang user setup).

Yes, but i like to have it in the quarantine directory.
 
> Question though... is it possible to "merge" the bayes files 
> from one user into those of another?  Or do I really need to 
> su to defang and then run sa-learn (again) over the spam/ham 
> mailboxes? (defang's shell is currently /sbin/nologin).
> 
> (I'd like to merge the bayes_* files in /root/.spamassassin/ 
> into those in /var/spool/MIMEDefang/.spamassassin/).

You can learn into bayes from any source. It does not matter who's mail that
is, if the user you run learning with has permissions to read the mail.
 
> > Alexander
> 
> Cheers
> Tony

Alexander


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