Problems with spamassassin suddenly forward all mails as SPAM

[Tony Yat-Tung Cheung <to...@asiayeah.com>]

Hi,

I have configured spamassassin to filter my mails and move the spams to 
a mail folder. It works fine for a while (e.g. several weeks) and then 
it would start forwarding all mails, include those marked as SPAM and 
not marked as SPAM, to the mail folder.

Once, the problem arises, I found that deleting the following two files 
will solve the problem,

~/.spamassassin/bayes_seen
~/.spamassassin/bayes_token

What is the possible problem? Any suggestion on how I can prevent this 
problem?

I am using spamassassin 3.01 on Red Hat Linux 9.0.

Thank you.

Tony Cheung

Re: Problems with spamassassin suddenly forward all mails as SPAM

[Chris Thielen <cm...@someone.dhs.org>]

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Tony Yat-Tung Cheung wrote:

| Hi,
|
| I have configured spamassassin to filter my mails and move the
| spams to a mail folder. It works fine for a while (e.g. several
| weeks) and then it would start forwarding all mails, include those
| marked as SPAM and not marked as SPAM, to the mail folder.
|
| Once, the problem arises, I found that deleting the following two
| files will solve the problem,
|
| ~/.spamassassin/bayes_seen ~/.spamassassin/bayes_token
|
| What is the possible problem? Any suggestion on how I can prevent
| this problem?
|
| I am using spamassassin 3.01 on Red Hat Linux 9.0.

Those two files you mentioned are the bayes database.

Since you say deleting those two files (and my assumption is that you
haven't changed anything else) causes the appropriate behaviour, I
expect you may be mistraining your bayes database.  This could be due
to auto-learning (a feature built into spamassassin), or some external
training script.

Check the wiki for more information on bayes.
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Re: Problems with spamassassin suddenly forward all mails as SPAM

[up...@3.am]

As I'm sure others will point out, SA doesn't "move spams" to any folders,
it just marks them up.  You have some other filtering mechanism doing
that, and that's where the problem is.

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Tony Yat-Tung Cheung wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have configured spamassassin to filter my mails and move the spams to
> a mail folder. It works fine for a while (e.g. several weeks) and then
> it would start forwarding all mails, include those marked as SPAM and
> not marked as SPAM, to the mail folder.
>
> Once, the problem arises, I found that deleting the following two files
> will solve the problem,
>
> ~/.spamassassin/bayes_seen
> ~/.spamassassin/bayes_token
>
> What is the possible problem? Any suggestion on how I can prevent this
> problem?
>
> I am using spamassassin 3.01 on Red Hat Linux 9.0.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Tony Cheung
>
>

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