[SA-exim] Hits get minus value

[Dan Egli]

Dan Egli wrote:

> 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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>>
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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.


I was just thinking. If you don't have enough Spam/Ham to reform your 
database, let me know and I can send you some bayes files I have from 
one of my clients. It's quite well populated with over 1000 hams and at 
last count over 400 spams.



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-- Dan