* Chris Lear wrote (09/23/05 10:34): > I'm running a reasonably small site-wide spamassassin, and I use a > site-side bayes db. Spamassassin runs as the user spamd. > > I noticed that I got spam last night with no BAYES_XX markup. I looked > into it this morning, and discovered that the bayes db only has 47 spam > messages in it (nspam from sa-learn --dump magic). It has about 69000 > ham. It must have gone from >200 spams at around 11pm last night to <50 > this morning, and the only explanation I can think of is that the spam > has been expired, but on the other hand this seems odd. > > Spamassassin learnt 143 messages as spam yesterday (according to my > logs). In the same period it learnt 291 as ham. These figures are > reasonably representative of the traffic (on weekdays, anyway) > > Can anyone explain what happened to the bayes db? It's now steadily > auto-learning itself back to normal, but we are going to get many more > false negatives today I think. > > Any information/explanation appreciated.
None forthcoming, so I'm putting this down to a freak bayes database corruption. sa-learn --dump magic now shows 161 spam and 69310 ham learnt, and I'm letting it sort itself out. In about 3 months I guess it will be back to normal :-). Spamassassin works fairly well without bayes, so I don't mind too much, but I would feel happier if I thought that what happened was understandable. Chris
