Spam Assassin training bug

[JamieH]

Hi, I've been getting an awful lot of spam lately, so I left my email for a couple of days and logged into the server and training it some spam. However ... it appears to not be learning!

I tested this by sending a spammy email from another account - training it as spam.

Then I open my email client and it downloads the msg anyway. OK - perhaps it doesn't delete the msg's marked as spam, so I tried sending the same msg again that I've now trained SA with and guess what? The msg is delivered straight to my email client! The sending a/c isn't on a whitelist so how come it didn't learn?

Is my SA broken? It's stats are:-
Messages learned: 5226 as spam, 7709 as non-spam, 12935 total.

Or do I need to drop the database and start again? Why does this state occur?

Thanks for any tips

 

[IgorG]

Look at this thread. Maybe it will help.

 

[JamieH]

Sa 2010

It's a problem with msg's not getting learned as spam, not really anything to with the 2010 link you've posted above.

I've heard from a colleague that SA stops working when it's database gets too big; anyone experienced this? Or am I feeding it incorrectly? I'm not really sure how it's going wrong - I can't even see any SA headers in the spam received in my inbox.