Please post messages in plaintext in the future. Thanks. Tinni wrote: > I am little bit confused of *sa-learn*. I have installed SA 3.02. I > did not set any bayes path in local.cf . When i am checking with > > #spamassassin -lint -D > > it is showing a path as
[snip] < debug: bayes: 7103 tie-ing to DB file R/O > /home/sites/www.domain.org/users/<user>/.spamassassin/bayes_toks > debug: bayes: 7103 tie-ing to DB file R/O > /home/sites/www.domain.org/users/<user>/.spamassassin/bayes_seen OK, looks good. SA puts preferences and AWL data and Bayes data files in ~<user>/.spamassassin/ by default. > I am executing the *sa-learn* as root, So do you think that the > central database for bayes is the aboove path? No, if you run sa-learn as root it will, like any other default SA call, put Bayes data in ~<user>/.spamassassin/. In particular, it will create /root/.spamassassin/bayes_seen and /root/.spamassassin/bayes_toks. > Also i am seeing that > the individual users's bayes database also updated. but i am not > allowing ANYBODY to execute the *sa-learn*. > - Though no user is executing the *sa-learn* then how every > userid bayes database is being updated ? (i am telling only > seeing the time stapm) This is due to SpamAssassin's autolearning capability; by default messages scoring under 0.1 or over 12 (IIRC, check the documentation) will get autolearned as ham or spam respectively. Each user's autolearned Bayes data will be put in the appropriate files in ~user/.spamassassin/. > I want that the mail > will be filtered through the *central database* only. > - Do i need to mention the path of bayes db in the local.cf? If you want a single, global Bayes database, you **MUST** set bayes_path in your configuration. For instance, on one of the systems I administer, I have the following in my local.cf to set up SA's Bayes subsystem: use_bayes 1 bayes_auto_learn 1 bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam -0.01 bayes_learn_to_journal 1 bayes_expiry_max_db_size 1000000 bayes_auto_expire 0 bayes_path /var/SpamAssassin/bayes bayes_file_mode 0777 I've explicitly set a number of options to their defaults as well, but this provides me with a single, global Bayes database, accessible and autolearn-able for all users, with a larger number of tokens than the default. Check the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf manpage for details on what these options do. Note that some of them may have changed for 3.x; this is a working 2.64 install. -kgd -- Get your mouse off of there! You don't know where that email has been!
