It's the user's home directory.The bayes db (as well as much more usefull to spamassassin) is in there. Running SA from another user you get working another (possibly empty) bayes db.
that is exactly it. i was running sa-learn as root (with /root/.spammassassin db) and daemon was running with spamd user (with empty /home/spamd/.spamassassin db) tHAnks for help