Really trying to figure out bayes. Auto learn is set up, and my headers are showing autolearn=spam
However, when I do sa-learn --dump magic, there are zero spams and zero hams.
By using the -D (debug) option, I can see sa-learn is looking at:
debug: bayes: 17216 tie-ing to DB file R/O /root/.spamassassin/bayes_toks debug: bayes: 17216 tie-ing to DB file R/O /root/.spamassassin/bayes_seen
When I get a new spam, these files are NOT being updated. The files being updated are in:
/var/spool/mqueue/.spamassassin
What's happening is that your mail is being processed as a non-root user, probably something like "mail" "sendmail" or some similar user that has mqueue as it's homedir. You can look at the owner of the bayes files to see what user it is running as.
probably the best option is to use sa-learn parameters to tell it where the db is.
sa-learn --dbpath /var/spool/mqueue/.spamassassin
also be sure to chown those files back to their original owner when you're done
