At Wed Dec 31 19:42:47 2003, pjh wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for being so patient with me :)
>
> Is it true then, that if Bayesian filtering is active, that each
> user has their own version/customized database in their home (
> ~/.spamassassin) directory and that using sa-learn is essentially
> modifying this particular database?
>
> The problem here is that there are no unambiguous statements
> relating to this in the documentation. Saying that SA does Bayesian
> filtering and the user can train SA does nothing to reveal these
> details. I wish someone would add lines like:
>
> A. Bayesian filtering only uses a database located in the users home
> directory
>
> B. Administrators can implement site wide Bayesian filtering and
> train SA using sa-learn. In this case the SA database is stored in
> directory /A/B/C
From "man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf":
bayes_path /path/to/file (default: ~/.spamassassin/bayes)
Path for Bayesian probabilities databases. Several
databases will be created, with this as the base, with
_toks, _seen etc. appended to this filename; so the
default setting results in files called
~/.spamassassin/bayes_seen, ~/.spamassassin/bayes_toks
etc.
By default, each user has their own, in their
~/.spamassassin directory with mode 0700/0600, but for
system-wide SpamAssassin use, you may want to reduce
disk space usage by sharing this across all users.
(However it should be noted that Bayesian filtering
appears to be more effective with an individual
database per user.)
> These are not unreasonable statements and are very obvious guesses
> as to how SA might be working. If they are not correct then the
> proper statements and explanations really need to be added to the
> documentation.
Martin
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