*Newbie Alert*
Afternoon all,
I'm a customer of a large host (Hostgator) and I am using their shared
hosting implementation of SA for my personal email. I also have SSH
access to my server, under a jailed shell.
SA works well for me, but I wanted to add bayes filtering. Hostgator
told me that bayes filtering wouldn't work on a shared host, but I added
the 'use bayes 1' and 'bayes_auto_learn 1' into my user_prefs file
anyway. It seems to work OK and it began building a bayes_toks file.
After enough mails had been processed I began seeing the Bayes rules
firing off in my incoming email. This was all done some time ago.
So far, so good.
I decided to look into the kind of maintenance that might be involved,
and discovered that my .spamassassin directory had /lots/ of
bayes_toks.expire files in it.
I've tried running sa-learn --force-expire but nothing seems to happen
at all. The .spamassassin directory shows as being owned by my current
user, as do all the contents.
I tried running sa-learn -D --dump magic to see what output that gave,
but it gives only this at the end of a lot of rule information:-
[375] dbg: rules: __MO_OL_4BF4C merged duplicates: __MO_OL_F6D01
[375] dbg: rules: __MO_OL_F475E merged duplicates: __MO_OL_FF5C8
[375] dbg: conf: finish parsing
[375] dbg: config: score set 1 chosen.
ERROR: Bayes dump returned an error, please re-run with -D for more
information:-
The full output is here:-
http://pastebin.com/m69d332c4
What I suppose I'm trying to ask is this:-
1) Am I asking too much trying to run bayes filtering on a shared host
in this manner?
2) How should I be manually maintaining the bayes data if sa-learn
doesn't seem to be working from my account?
Rob
