Jim Gottlieb wrote: > I notice that in many of the spam messages that sneak through, the > X-Spam-Status header does not have any BAYES_* score. Does this > indicate a problem? Should all messages includes a BAYES score?
Not all, but certainly most. > I am using a single bayes database for our whole network, mounted via > NFS. But it seems to lock it for several seconds for each user's > access to it, so I could see that bayes access might often time out > while waiting for some other's lock to expire? Depends on traffic... there should be some bayes errors in your logs if there are timeout issues. > If my theory is correct, does this mean I need to move to having the > bayes database in an SQL database? SQL databases take more memory, but have much greater performance. How many messages do you process a day? How many computers use the bayes database? -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer