Issues with bayes setup on shared host

[Rob Sharp <ro...@boringbutgood.com>]

*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

Re: Issues with bayes setup on shared host

[eluke <em...@hotmail.com>]

I am also on HostGator, but I cannot get my bayes to work.  I included your
suggestions on how you got yours to work.  Can you give me detail
instructions?  
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