[H-GEN] SpamAssassin problem

[Robert Brockway]

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Harry Phillips wrote:

> I log everything except mail to tty11 and mail messages to tty12. Since

I like this sort of thing too.

> I did that, I keep getting in my log[1] an error message when I receive
> mail.

So if you comment out the tty11 & tty12 entries in syslog.conf & restart
syslogd does the problem go away?

> "Cannot open bayes_path /home/users/harry/.spamassassin/bayes R/W: File
> Exists"

Something to do with the Bayensian filter built in to SA I gather.
Does the file exist?  If so, does it exist all the time or only during
mail arrival or other times?

> Does anyone know what this means? Should I be concerned about it?

Is your mail delivering ok, and is SA still blocking mail for you?

> I am getting mail with a score of like -5.3 (yes that's a negative). Is
> the error the cause of the negative score?

SA can produce mail with a negative score, this is normal and comes about
as a result of some of its qualitative tests.

Rob

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