I've just had an issue with SpamAssassin and Bayes. I am running SpamAssassin 3.02 on Windows.
Basically it stopped working, and no SA checks were completeing. I tried to see what was happening with Spamassassin -D --lint And it started ok, and decided it needed to do an expiry, which took quite a long time. When it had completed it had the following line: debug: refresh: 3392 refresh F:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/SPAMAS~1/bayes.lock repeated over and over again, perhaps for 20 minutes. Fortunately the last time I tried it to get a copy of the log to post, it did eventually complete with the following end to the log: debug: refresh: 3392 refresh F:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/SPAMAS~1/bayes.lock debug: refresh: 3392 refresh F:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/SPAMAS~1/bayes.lock debug: refresh: 3392 refresh F:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/SPAMAS~1/bayes.lock debug: refresh: 3392 refresh F:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/SPAMAS~1/bayes.lock debug: refresh: 3392 refresh F:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/SPAMAS~1/bayes.lock debug: bayes: 3392 untie-ing debug: bayes: 3392 untie-ing db_toks debug: bayes: 3392 untie-ing db_seen debug: bayes: files locked, now unlocking lock debug: unlock: 3392 unlink F:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/SPAMAS~1/bayes.lock debug: expired old Bayes database entries in 1533 seconds: 485101 entries kept, 18889 deleted debug: Syncing complete. debug: registering glue method for check_uridnsbl (Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::U RIDNSBL=HASH(0x22727b4)) debug: plugin: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL=HASH(0x22727b4) implements ' check_tick' debug: running raw-body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=-0.287 debug: running full-text regexp tests; score so far=-0.287 debug: DCCifd is not available: no r/w dccifd socket found. debug: Running tests for priority: 500 debug: plugin: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL=HASH(0x22727b4) implements ' check_post_dnsbl' debug: running meta tests; score so far=-0.287 debug: running header regexp tests; score so far=0.939 debug: running body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=0.939 debug: running uri tests; score so far=0.939 debug: running raw-body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=0.939 debug: running full-text regexp tests; score so far=0.939 debug: Running tests for priority: 1000 debug: running meta tests; score so far=0.939 debug: running header regexp tests; score so far=0.939 debug: running body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=0.939 debug: running uri tests; score so far=0.939 debug: running raw-body-text per-line regexp tests; score so far=0.939 debug: running full-text regexp tests; score so far=0.939 debug: is spam? score=0.939 required=2.4 debug: tests=BAYES_05,MISSING_HEADERS,MISSING_SUBJECT,NO_REAL_NAME debug: subtests=__HAS_MSGID,__MSGID_OK_DIGITS,__MSGID_OK_HOST,__SANE_MSGID,__UNU SABLE_MSGID The problem which is no more a problem is why was it doing: debug: refresh: 3392 refresh F:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/SPAMAS~1/bayes.lock over and over again? I tried removing the bayes.lock file but it kept going and replaced the file. Is there anything I can do to stop this happening again? Thanks Ben
