location of bayes_*

[Craig Jackson <cj...@localsurface.com>]

Hi,
Spamassassin is running as user spamass. I wrote these Bash scripts that
learn from spam in users' IMAP folder (.SPAM); howver, this script runs
as root and then copies the bayes filters ... where? Into a
.spamassassin directory in spamass's $HOME?  I ask because I tried that
and I'm not sure it's working. I also tried bayes_path in
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and that doesn't do much.

Any hints?

Thanks,
Craig Jackson

Re: location of bayes_*

[Matt Kettler <mk...@comcast.net>]

At 06:14 AM 3/2/04 -0600, Craig Jackson wrote:
>Hi,
>Spamassassin is running as user spamass. I wrote these Bash scripts that
>learn from spam in users' IMAP folder (.SPAM); howver, this script runs
>as root and then copies the bayes filters ... where? Into a
>.spamassassin directory in spamass's $HOME?

By default, yes.

>I ask because I tried that
>and I'm not sure it's working. I also tried bayes_path in
>/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and that doesn't do much.

One word of warning.. read the docs on bayes_path very carefuly. The 
parameter to bayes_path isn't just a path.

ie:

         bayes_path /var/spamassassin/bayes

Will cause the file /var/spamassassin/bayes_toks to be created and not 
/var/spamassassin/bayes/bayes_toks... Note that the last part of bayes_path 
isn't a directory, but the prefix of the filenames.

>Any hints?

spamassassin --lint should point out most syntax errors in config files.. 
check with it first.

 From there spamassassin -D --lint should tell you what bayes files SA is 
using.  Along with a bunch of other debug output.