RE: newbie bayes_path question

Ebbe Hjorth wrote:[color=blue]
> I tried to find out howto use bayes_path on a mailserver with only
> virtual users?
>
> I searched my drive for "bayes" as the standard folder should be
> named in the /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin folder but nothing
> there.
>
> Do i just put bayes_path=/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/ in
> the local.cf and spamassassin takes care of the rest? I just seems to
> easy ;)[/color]

You're almost there. You just made one common mistake.

The bayes_path is not a directory. It's a path and a filename stub.
Try this:

bayes_path=/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/bayes

You will need to create the /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/
directory and then SA will create the bayes* files.

Remember to restart spamd after making config changes.

--
Bowie

Bowie Bailey wrote:[color=blue]
> Ebbe Hjorth wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I tried to find out howto use bayes_path on a mailserver with only
>> virtual users?
>>
>> I searched my drive for "bayes" as the standard folder should be
>> named in the /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin folder but nothing
>> there.
>>
>> Do i just put bayes_path=/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/ in
>> the local.cf and spamassassin takes care of the rest? I just seems to
>> easy ;)
>>[/color]
>
> You're almost there. You just made one common mistake.
>
> The bayes_path is not a directory. It's a path and a filename stub.
> Try this:
>
> bayes_path=/usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/bayes
>
> You will need to create the /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/
> directory and then SA will create the bayes* files.
>
> Remember to restart spamd after making config changes.
>[/color]
Still almost there.

You need to tell SA to make those files world-writable.

bayes_file_mode 0777

(and note: that's really a mask, not a mode. You need 777 because
sometimes it's used in temp directory creation, and those need to end up
777. Any non-directories will mask a request of 666 against your 777
and end up 666)