[vps-mail] Bayes --force-expire problem

["Jim Smith" <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I notice that my Bayes token and journal file continues to grow unless I
periodically run the command:
sa-learn --force-expire -D

I have "bayes_auto_expire 1" in my user_prefs file but it doesn't seem to do
anything.
When I run force expire, I think it is supposed to incorporate the journal
entries into the tokens and remove any obsolete entries. It does remove my
journal file and I assume updates everything. It seems that by doing that
I'm able to keep my token file at around 5 megs. I also have
"bayes_expiry_max_db_size 110000" if that makes a difference.

Now the problem. I just ran that command. Everything seemed to be as normal.
However, I've noticed that my level of unfiltered spam just jumped up. All
the entertainment book commercials and other debris that I've not had to
deal with are again landing in my inbox. I've been checking the headers and
it seems that bayes forgot all it's learning and is marking everything at
bayes=0.5 again <sigh>.

Did I do something wrong? Does it need to re-learn stuff? I tried having it
relearn my corpus (sa-learn /home/jimsmith/corpus/ham --ham --mbox -D) but
it said out of 188 messages it had already learned them all. 

When the Bayes is working well, it is wonderful! I'm absolutely hooked on
its ability to filter accurately. I'll just be a very happy camper when/if
this Bayes thing all becomes automated for the shared servers (VPS2) so I
don't botch things each time I blunder through. Any suggestions to fix my
latest blunder? 

Thanks,

Jim Smith

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           Jim Smith, Blarneystone, LLC.
  Website Design, Hosting, Development & Enhancement
   E-MAIL:      jimsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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