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Spamassassin 3.1.5 again, fuzzyocr, and mysql for Bayes

Posted by on September 21, 2006

I rolled back Spamassassin from 3.2 to 3.1.5 since 3.2 wasn’t catching some spam, and not showing some results under debug mode.

I managed to get the fuzzyocr plug-in 2.3b working again under 3.1.5. I just had to change some settings for it to work again. The ocr doesn’t kick in unless other scores are under a total of 10. This keeps the ocr from working unless it’s necessary.

My big accomplishment today was moving the Bayes database in Spamassassin from a dbm to a mysql database. This should perform a lot faster than the default dbm, and hopefully resolve any force expire or scanning issues that stalled Spamassassin. I think these Bayes issues may be what’s causing the hiccups in Spamassassin that allow obvious spam to get through. phpmyadmin made it very easy to create the databases and import the tables need to convert the Bayes database over to mysql.