Thank you for that! Off-list you mentioned that you don't need to set the cron/expire because of Redis features; why is it commented out here?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Axb [mailto:axb.li...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 2:14 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Bayes Autolearning > > On 05/01/2013 08:01 PM, Andrew Talbot wrote: > > > Any suggestions any of you have for a Bayes newbie - about what I just > > asked or otherwise - would be very much appreciated. > > I advocate autolearning as it has always worked fine for me. > Can take a bit longer to see good results but with some tuning I can sit back > and hear it purr and not worry about collecting ham and spam and training, > which under certain circumstances may even be impossible. > > Before moving on to Redis, these were my bayes settings > > # bayes.cf > > use_bayes 1 > bayes_auto_learn 1 > bayes_auto_expire 0 > > bayes_learn_to_journal 0 > > # Dont' want to wait for the deault 200 hams/spams bayes_min_ham_num > 20 bayes_min_spam_num 20 > > bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam -1.0 > bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 15.0 > > > # FILE BASED > # mkdir /etc/bayes > bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/bayes > > # Check permsisions/modify if needed > #bayes_file_mode 0666 > > bayes_expiry_max_db_size 350000 > # SDBM is faster than other r/w DBs > bayes_store_module Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::SDBM > > # cron weekly > # sa-learn --force-expire