Hi all,
I’ve been using spamassassin on my home network for a month or so now and am quite 
happy with it. However, I don’t think I’m getting the full benefit of the Bayesian 
analysis part of it because of the way I have my network set up.
Basically, I use a site-wide procmailrc control file (in /etc/procmailrc) to decide 
where spam and possible-spam goes. As such, it all goes into two files. When I run 
sa-learn against those mailbox files what I think is the Bayesian database in 
/home/root grows. Which makes sense, I’m running sa-learn as root and root is the 
owner of the spam and possible-spam mailboxes. Since little of my incoming spam is 
addressed to root, however, that growing reservoir of knowledge is mostly going to 
waste.
I know that I could re-arrange my system so that each user had their own spam and 
possible-spam mailboxes, along with individual .procmailrc files in their home 
directories. But because we’re just a household of four people, and because almost 
all of our spam is identical [you can’t imagine how many multiple pitches for Viagra 
I’ve seen :)] I’m hoping there’s another way.
I saw a reference to setting up the Bayesian database for spamassassin as a site-wide 
MySQL database, but it wasn’t a complete description of the setup. I’ve used MySQL 
extensively in the past, so I’m comfortable going that route if, in fact, it’s the 
way to go.
So…and apologies for the length of this post…is there a way to set spamassassin up 
to work with a site-wide Bayesian database?
Thanx in advance!
- Mark
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