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I'd also suggest that on such a high-volume setup, autolearning
may not be appropriate; manual learning might be better.

- --j.

Ryan Thompson writes:
> Johann Spies wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> 
> > [...]
> > It might be both auto-whitelisting and bayesian corruption.
> >
> > I can not afford unreliable software to do this important job.
> > Am I the only one who experience this type of behaviour?
> 
> No. See, at least, the thread that I started, beginning with "Bayes went
> nuts". Aside from a couple of "me too" responses, I'm not aware of any
> resolution yet. The workaround was to replace the DB, as you discovered.
> 
> On a system like yours, you might want to tune the expiry settings. Or,
> if you want control, don't auto-expire. Manually expire periodically,
> but back up the database first, manually expire on the backup (use
> --dbpath), compare sa-learn --magic, and then swap the databases if
> everything looks OK. If things *do* go wrong, you'll have a recent
> backup, *and* an excellent way to diagnose expiry-related problems.
> 
> If you want to be part of the solution, let us know which version of SA
> you're running, what your expire settings were when this happened, and
> what sa-learn --magic tells you. It seemed to me that your post was more
> of a frustrated rant than a potential problem report. :-)
> 
> > How can I prevent this?  I can not watch spamassassin 24 hours per day
> > to jump in when something goes wrong.
> 
> If it's that important, you can't afford *not* to watch SpamAssassin 24
> hours per day to jump in when something goes wrong. Problems can occur
> with *any* system. Automate the monitoring of it, or hire someone who
> can.
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