I wrote (about the AWL):
> In the absence of any sort of expire mechanism¹ (see, for example,
> https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6059) one can do
> a crude approximation by periodically resetting it.
LuKreme wrote:
> But why would you want to ever reset the AWL?
To quote that bug report:
at this stage I don’t think it’s worth having on by default, given
the problems it causes for disk load and out-of-control bloated db
files eating lots of disk space and memory, vs the marginal gains in
accuracy it provides. let’s set it off by default.
One can temporarily get the db files under control by deleting them and
letting SpamAssassin recreate them from scratch.
I continued:
> Yes, you lose a lot of history. But it’s no worse than not having it at
> all, which is what is due for 3.3.0.
LuKreme wrote:
> 3.3.0 has no AWL?
Not by default: see
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/rules/v310.pre?r1=563527&r2=759790&pathrev=759790
James.
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