On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:49:30 -0700 Chris Hunt wrote: > On Mar 15, 2012 4:33 PM, "RW" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > auto-learn and auto-expiry are two different things. Why would you > > think that auto-learn would override the bayes_auto_expire setting? > > > > > > That is what I am trying to clarify. IF auto-learn runs sa-learn > (which is only implied), then it might still be doing opportunistic > expirations. I think i found my answer in the man page for sa-learn, > though: > > "EXPIRY RELATED CONFIGURATION SETTINGS > "bayes_auto_expire" is used to specify whether or not > SpamAssassin ought to opportunistically attempt to expire the Bayes > database. The default is 1 (yes)." > > > Naturally I'd read that before, but it wasn't clear to me that > sa-learn function honored that setting regardless of how it's called > (by auto-learn or manually) but I now believe that is the case. I do > hope if that's not correct someone will jump in. auto-learning doesn't use sa-learn, but even if it did spamassassin, sa-learn and spamd all read-in the same configuration files.
