Re: [vps-mail] sa-learn

[Abigail Marshall <abigail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jonathan Duncan <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I ran "sa-learn --spam spamfile" on a file with
> 1000+ messages in it.  It 
> took a minute or so and then said something like it
> found 1 message and 
> learned 1 message.  Is this normal?

How was that file compiled? Spamassassin will not
re-learn email it has already learned automatically,
so unless the spam in the email box is fresh, running
sa-learn will not accomplish anything.  Also, if you
had a situation where the Bayes databases became
corrupted and you were trying to recreate a database,
it would be important to delete all the old database
files -- or else SA will use the old bayes_toks or
bayes_journal file and treat the spam as "read" even
though the bayes_seen file may no longer exist. 

> Is there some 
> server-wide bayes database?  If so, where are the
> files for it?  I did a 
> locate on bayes_tok and it found one for each of my
> users, but that is it. 

That depends on your set up -- if you configured SA
for server wide use, then there will be a server-wide
database, usually in
/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes on a VPS2 where
SA was set up using vinstall.  The local.cf file could
specify a different location.  On a VPS2, it would be
in ~/etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes

If SA is configured on a per-user basis, then you
would not see a server-wide database.

-Abigail
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