Thanks guys, I ran with -D and got this line:

debug: bayes: DB_File module not installed, cannot use Bayes

Problem solved!
Mark

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:23:20AM -0500, Chris wrote:
> I had the same problem for a while.
> 
> > No matter what I do, I get something like:
> >
> > ~/Mail >sa-learn --spam --mbox spam
> > Learned from 0 message(s) (1927 message(s) examined).
> > ~/Mail >sa-learn --ham --mbox /var/spool/mail/mark
> > Learned from 0 message(s) (111 message(s) examined).
> >
> > It always "learns from 0 messages", whatever that means, and my spam
> > filtering doesn't change (I'm at about 70% filtering).  Am I doing
> > something wrong?  What is suppose to happen?
> 
> Try these couple of things.
> 
> a) run it with the debug flag -d
> 
> sa-learn -D --spam --mbox spam
> 
> b) try fully qualifying the paths in case you aren't in the right place
> 
> sa-learn -D --spam --mbox /home/user/spam
> 
> c) when you've run it in debug make sure that you don't see errors about the
> ability to right the files. There could be two problems here.
>     - you might need to install perl-DB_file module so it knows how to write
> the files. Make sure you have that module installed.
>     - permissions! check your permissions under the user directory, i.e.
> /home/user/.spamassassin and make sure the ownership of the directory and
> all files within it are to the user in question and are writable to that
> user.
> 
> d) as Brian said, it won't relearn messages you've learnt already.
> 
> Try those things.. but above all, remember the -D option is your friend!
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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