Hi, I don't stop mail processing while it is rebuilding. I just schedule the rebuild for a fairly quiet period.
PS You should send your replies to the list, as there are far more people who will see and possibly help with your message. > Is there any problem with running the rebuild during normal mail > processing? Or should I shut down MailScanner, rebuild, and re-start? > > Pierre > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony Peacock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 10:39 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: MailScanner, SpamAssassin and Bayes rebuilds > > > Hi, > > Turn off automatic Bayes rebuilds, and run a rebuild once a day using > sa-learn. > > For example on *nix I use the following: > > /usr/local/bin/sa-learn --force-expire > > Which is run via cron once a day during the wee small hours. > > > > I just upgraded to MailScanner 4.46.2 (current stable version) and > > SpamAssassin 3.1.0. I have five MailScanner child processes, and > > they restart themselves every 4 hours. > > > > On startup, the first of the five MS processes discovers that a > > Bayes rebuild is due, and proceeds to run it. Thereafter, that > > thread gets SA timeouts almost every time, and after the limit of > > consecutive SA timeouts is reached it just passes everything. > > Needless to say, we had a spammy weekend. > > > > Anyone else seeing this sort of behavior? Any suggestions? For > > now, I have turned off automatic Bayes rebuilds, and it seems to be > > working OK... > > > > thanks > > Pierre Thomson > > BIC > > > > > > > -- > Anthony Peacock > CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School > WWW: http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/ > "It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was > my age, he had been dead for two years." - Tom Lehrer > > > -- Anthony Peacock CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School WWW: http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/ "Computer software consists of only two components: ones and zeros, in roughly equal proportions. All that is required is to sort them into the correct order.
