Martin Gregorie-2 wrote
> On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 13:15 -0700, RobertGrimes wrote:
>> I am not sure the reference to Linux as I am only using windows. I have
>> not
>> modified any pathnames so I don't see how the backslash vs forwardslash
>> is
>> relevant unless it is buried somewhere.
>>
> I'm not talking about backslash vs slash: if I was I'd have said so. 
> 
> What I am talking about is bare file names and those that start with a
> directory that is NOT preceeded by a drive ID or a slash, i.e.
> dirname/filename. These are known as relative pathnames because their
> exact meaning depends on the reference point in the filing system that
> they are used from. This is quite different to names that start with a
> slash or drive letter, e.g. /dirname/filename or C:/dirname/filename.
> The latter are known as absolute pathnames because their meaning is
> independent of the user's or program's reference point in the filing
> system. 
> 
> Because relative pathnames are relative to the environment that the
> program is running in, their meaning can be affected by OS differences,
> while absolute pathnames are unaffected as long as they are accepted by
> the OS. You aren't getting complaints about invalid filenames, so its
> possible that some relative pathname is getting misunderstood.
> 
>> I am running the spamc command line
>> in the exact same directory as where the spamd runs. 
>>
> Is that the directory that both programs are installed in or some other
> directory? 
> 
> Are both programs installed in the same directory?
> What is its name?
> What is the name pased to spamc and spamd to tell them where to find the
> spamassassin configuration?
> 
>> They both are running
>> under the same user account so permissions should be equal.
>> 
> OK, so its not a permissions problem.
>  
>> I have been running SA for several months and get at least 100 spams a
>> day.
>> Learning should be in force.
>> 
> But have you had enough hams yet? They are also necessary before Bayes
> will work and, in some environments can be considerably thinner on the
> ground (I had a spam:ham ration of 80:20 until my ISP turned on
> greylisting, when overnight it switched to 20:80.
> 
> 
> Martin

Both spamc and hMailServer SA service are running in the same directory
where the binaries for SA are. I am not sure the significance of the
directory name. As I stated both use the same parameters which is only -l
therefore SA uses default config file locations for both.

I have had serveral hundred hams. Wouldn't that be enough?



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