[SA-exim] Hits get minus value

[Dan Egli]

Pradeeper wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:55, Dan Egli wrote:
> 
>>Like I said. Feed the spams to sa-learn. sa-learn --spam <mbox file/maildir>
> 
> Oh! I did it.
> 
> 
>>You might want to consider nuking the DB and starting over. Looks to me 
>>like it might be corrupted.
> 
> Will sa-learn --rebuild do that?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Pradeeper
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--rebuild only repairs the file "if needed". IF you're not getting 
errors in your spamassassin log file then SpamAssassin doesn't realize 
it needs to rebuild (it can happen). To do a manual rebuild, read your 
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file. If there's a bayes_path statement 
then that is where your bays files are. Remove them. If not, then they 
are usually found in the SpamAssassin caller's home directory under 
.spamassassin/bayes. For example, since I configured exim's home 
directory as /var/spool/exim, my bayes_path reads:

bayes_path /var/spool/exim/.spamassassin/bayes

so I would remove /var/spool/exim/.spamassassin/bayes_*

So find the files, nuke them, then run sa-learn --rebuild --ham and pipe 
in as many non-spams as you can find. Then run with --spam and shove in 
any spams you have left over. I usually keep a small dump of around 200 
of the most annoying spams so if I have to rebuild my DB I can start of 
with a full DB, and don't have to wait for the 200 limit. You can also 
set the minimum in your .cf file. bayes_min_spam_num X will use the 
bayes database as soon as it contains X spams. You can also set a HAM 
limit with bayes_min_ham_num X.


-- 
-- Dan