getting debug: cannot use bayes on this message; db not initialised yet

[Dana Holland <da...@navarrocollege.edu>]

I get this message when running spamassassin --lint -D.

I've googled this, but can't seem to find a solution.  My bayes files 
are in /etc/mail/spamassassin.  I've done a chown to defang.defang for 
both the directory and the bayes files.  I've done a chmod 755 on the 
directory.  In doing a search on google, those were the only two issues 
that came up in reference to this message.  What else could I be doing 
wrong?

Re: getting debug: cannot use bayes on this message; db not initialised yet

[Theo Van Dinter <fe...@kluge.net>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:52:32AM -0600, Dana Holland wrote:
> I've googled this, but can't seem to find a solution.  My bayes files 
> are in /etc/mail/spamassassin.  I've done a chown to defang.defang for 
> both the directory and the bayes files.  I've done a chmod 755 on the 
> directory.  In doing a search on google, those were the only two issues 
> that came up in reference to this message.  What else could I be doing 
> wrong?

Ownership/permissions has nothing to do with it.  Basically none of the
tokens in the message you passed in were in the Bayes DB.  So it had
nothing to work with.

That warning message is a bit clearer in 3.0. :)

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