[Mimedefang]

[Chris Gauch]

Run %> sa-learn from the command line and feed it a text file or something
that contains a known spam message.  Take a look at your bayes directory
afterwards.

Make sure that user "defang" has write permissions on the bayes directory
you are using.  If your run sa-learn as root (which is fine), just <chown
defang.defang bayes*> in your /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/ directory to
ensure that MIMEDefang can write to those files.  If your MIMEDefang server
deals with a large volume of mail, turn on bayes_learn_to_journal or you'll
have issues with lock files hanging up the MD slaves. 

Sometimes after moving the bayes databases to a new path you must "prime"
the learning process by running sa-learn in order to force the new bayes
changes to take effect.

- Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com
[mailto:mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Rife
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 12:40 PM
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] 

On 30 Jun 2004 at 14:01, Jeff Grossman wrote:

> I don't personally use AWL, but I am not sure why you have problems with
the
> bayes path statement.  Here is the relevant portion of my sa-mimedefang.cf
> file in /etc/mail/spamassassin:
> 
> #Bayes information
> use_bayes       1
> bayes_path      /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/bayes
> bayes_file_mode 0700
> bayes_use_hapaxes       1
> auto_learn_threshold_nonspam    0.0
> auto_learn_threshold_spam       8.0
> 
> 
> And, my bayes database goes in the directory specified in that file.  I
have
> never made any changes to mimedefang.pl.

All I know is that I had bayes* files appear in ~defang/.spamassassin 
until I made this change.  I run MIMEDefang 2.43 and SpamAssassin 2.63.


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