I'm getting no bayes score on any email and there appears to be no bayes filtering despite my best efforts. I am not a linux and spamassassin guru, so I'm asking for some help.
I have built up these settings in local.cf in attempts to get bayes working: use_bayes 1 bayes_auto_learn 1 bayes_min_ham_num 100 bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam -0.001 bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 6.0 allow_user_rules 0 add_header all Status _YESNO_, score=_SCORE_ required=_REQD_ tests=_TESTS_ autolearn=_AUTOLEARN_ version=_VERSION_ The spamassassin log file shows one error consistently: Fri Mar 3 12:36:27 2017 [10104] info: spamd: creating default_prefs: /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs Fri Mar 3 12:36:27 2017 [10104] info: spamd: failed to create readable default_prefs: /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs and one error sporadically: warn: plugin: eval failed: bayes: (in learn) locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /root/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.[mydomain.com].27903 for /root/.spamassassin/bayes.lock: Permission denied The user_prefs file in /root/.spamassassin/ does exist, and I've given everyone permissions to it to attempt to resolve this problem, with no effect: -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1273 Mar 1 14:46 user_prefs* My spamd launch command explicitly sets the user as spamd, but the main service is still running as root while children appear to be spawning properly. Here's ps output: root 10093 0.0 1.5 145988 66952 ? Ss 02:25 0:05 /usr/sbin/spamd --create-prefs --max-children=5 --username=spamd --helper-home-dir=/var/log/spamassassin/ --syslog=/var/log/spamassassin/spam.log -d --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid spamd 10104 0.0 1.8 155348 75544 ? S 02:25 0:22 spamd child spamd 23753 0.0 1.7 151732 72000 ? S 10:30 0:02 spamd child My bayes database exists for root: sa-learn --dump magic 0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version 0.000 0 1727 0 non-token data: nspam 0.000 0 111 0 non-token data: nham 0.000 0 103812 0 non-token data: ntokens 0.000 0 1484629200 0 non-token data: oldest atime 0.000 0 1488559525 0 non-token data: newest atime 0.000 0 1488323169 0 non-token data: last journal sync atime 0.000 0 0 0 non-token data: last expiry atime 0.000 0 0 0 non-token data: last expire atime delta 0.000 0 0 0 non-token data: last expire reduction count All of my email headers have either of these, despite me forcing autolearn on with the thresholds shown above: autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no or autolearn=no autolearn_force=no Lastly, here's a full snippet of the spamassassin log showing it identifying spam, but not applying any bayes processing, while apparently working as root: Fri Mar 3 12:55:11 2017 [10104] info: spamd: connection from localhost [::1]:54673 to port 783, fd 6 Fri Mar 3 12:55:11 2017 [10104] info: spamd: creating default_prefs: /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs Fri Mar 3 12:55:11 2017 [10104] info: spamd: failed to create readable default_prefs: /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs Fri Mar 3 12:55:11 2017 [10104] info: spamd: processing message <removed by op> for root:1010 Fri Mar 3 12:55:11 2017 [10104] info: spamd: identified spam (10.5/3.0) for root:1010 in 0.2 seconds, 8433 bytes. Fri Mar 3 12:55:11 2017 [10104] info: spamd: result: Y 10 - HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRAST,HTML_MESSAGE,MPART_ALT_DIFF,RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT,RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS,RDNS_NONE,T_REMOTE_IMAGE,URIBL_BLOCKED,URIBL_DBL_SPAM,URIBL_SBL,URIBL_SBL_A scantime=0.2,size=8433,user=root,uid=1010,required_score=3.0,rhost=localhost,raddr=::1,rport=54673,mid=<removed by op>,autolearn=no autolearn_force=no Fri Mar 3 12:55:11 2017 [10093] info: prefork: child states: II and here's a full snippet of it missing spam, because of no bayes filtering: Fri Mar 3 13:01:31 2017 [10104] info: spamd: connection from localhost [::1]:56926 to port 783, fd 6 Fri Mar 3 13:01:31 2017 [10104] info: spamd: creating default_prefs: /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs Fri Mar 3 13:01:31 2017 [10104] info: spamd: failed to create readable default_prefs: /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs Fri Mar 3 13:01:31 2017 [10104] info: spamd: processing message <removed by op> for root:1010 Fri Mar 3 13:01:31 2017 [10104] info: spamd: clean message (1.3/3.0) for root:1010 in 0.3 seconds, 8104 bytes. Fri Mar 3 13:01:31 2017 [10104] info: spamd: result: . 1 - RDNS_NONE,URIBL_BLOCKED scantime=0.3,size=8104,user=root,uid=1010,required_score=3.0,rhost=localhost,raddr=::1,rport=56926,mid=<removed by op>,autolearn=no autolearn_force=no Fri Mar 3 13:01:31 2017 [10093] info: prefork: child states: II Is the problem that the bayes database is in /root/.spamassassin and the child processes can't access it? Where should it be, or is it something else? At my limited knowledge's end on this. Any help appreciated.
