Re: Spamassassin acting funny.

[Hoyt Bailey <ho...@wiredok.com>]

On Saturday 10 April 2004 16:48, Hoyt Bailey wrote: and sent to wrong 
address.
> To recap;  Spamassassin during reading incoming mail used all usable
> cycles of the cpu(100% use).  It appeared that it was working but
> nothing happened.  IE virtual hang.  I had tried it running sa-learn
> on a file that had 4 messages for 12 minutes,  I thought that was
> long enough.  I had tried to start spamassassin whit the -D option
> and nothing happened, no log file. I did discover that running top is
> a terminal while getting mail helped, not stopped the problem.
> Therefore I uninstalled spamassassin and its dependences and
> reinstalled same and before exposing it to any mail I ran it against
> a spam collection of approx 150 messages. I let it run from about
> 09:30 to 15:05 about 5 1/2 hours it consumed what was left of cpu
> cycles apparently it allowed whatever process needed the cpu to use
> it but it did not process the 150 messages.  The following was used
> to start sa-learn:
> 'sa-learn --spam --dir /storage/Mail/spam/cur'
> I think that is correct but if not please let me know, the mail is
> stored in /storage/Mail same format as my Mail directory.  I don't
> receive a lot of spam about 10% but it is going to get worse and I
> need to be ready to handle it.  Either I do not understand how it
> works or something is wrong and I do not know which is true?

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Hoyt

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