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Understanding Spamassasin's bayes filtering
I've recently been pestered by a user complaining about their space being used up...
Upon further investigation I find that their "/home/<user>/.spamassassin" directory is taking up most of the space...
As you can see, it aint pretty...Code:root@pear [/home/<user>/.spamassassin]# ls -alh total 291M drwx------ 2 <user> <user> 12K Aug 17 10:42 ./ drwx--x--x 20 <user> <user> 4.0K Aug 14 14:24 ../ -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 4.0K Aug 7 08:58 __db.bayes_toks.expire10017 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 9 19:39 __db.bayes_toks.expire11928 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 7 06:30 __db.bayes_toks.expire13341 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 7 06:22 __db.bayes_toks.expire13343 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 15 10:12 __db.bayes_toks.expire14224 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 14 19:01 __db.bayes_toks.expire1492 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 4.0K Aug 16 18:33 __db.bayes_toks.expire15519 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 6 21:42 __db.bayes_toks.expire16051 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 15 10:42 __db.bayes_toks.expire1638 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 5 19:28 __db.bayes_toks.expire18180 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 7 11:04 __db.bayes_toks.expire2010 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 6 21:45 __db.bayes_toks.expire21733 ..crop.. -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 10 10:39 __db.bayes_toks.expire3738 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 14 18:09 __db.bayes_toks.expire5448 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 4.0K Aug 9 16:40 __db.bayes_toks.expire5849 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 4 07:52 __db.bayes_toks.expire5981 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 4 07:36 __db.bayes_toks.expire5982 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 4.0K Aug 15 07:52 __db.bayes_toks.expire7186 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 8 23:46 __db.bayes_toks.expire7784 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 6 12:26 __db.bayes_toks.expire9659 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 9.9M Aug 17 09:46 auto-whitelist -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 0 Aug 17 10:35 bayes.lock -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 20K Aug 17 10:41 bayes_journal -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.5M Aug 17 10:35 bayes_seen -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 20M Aug 17 10:35 bayes_toks -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 4.3M Aug 12 12:39 bayes_toks.expire10001 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.1M Aug 12 11:03 bayes_toks.expire10113 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.1M Aug 8 21:22 bayes_toks.expire10183 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 4.3M Aug 10 03:57 bayes_toks.expire11708 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 520K Aug 10 04:39 bayes_toks.expire11710 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 9.3M Aug 12 08:48 bayes_toks.expire12138 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 72K Aug 8 10:05 bayes_toks.expire1361 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 148K Jul 19 2006 bayes_toks.expire1367 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.6M Sep 14 2006 bayes_toks.expire13765 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.2M Sep 12 2006 bayes_toks.expire13825 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 8.5M Aug 12 08:25 bayes_toks.expire14207 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 12K Jul 29 18:22 bayes_toks.expire1430 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 72K Aug 10 12:51 bayes_toks.expire14335 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 4.2M Aug 13 22:00 bayes_toks.expire1438 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 268K Aug 14 21:44 bayes_toks.expire1493 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 4.2M Aug 13 14:09 bayes_toks.expire1502 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 5.1M Aug 14 2006 bayes_toks.expire15528 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 48K Jul 29 20:52 bayes_toks.expire1567 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 9.6M Jan 26 2007 bayes_toks.expire15712 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 4.3M Aug 11 02:38 bayes_toks.expire15781 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 9.5M Aug 12 04:44 bayes_toks.expire16054 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 9.0M Aug 13 06:45 bayes_toks.expire1607 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 1.1M Aug 13 02:01 bayes_toks.expire1608 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.4M Sep 12 2006 bayes_toks.expire16086 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 72K Aug 7 18:38 bayes_toks.expire1610 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 8.6M Aug 11 00:50 bayes_toks.expire1626 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 4.2M Aug 12 20:24 bayes_toks.expire1646 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 4.2M Aug 14 06:39 bayes_toks.expire1654 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.1M Aug 12 00:12 bayes_toks.expire1666 ..crop.. -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 9.2M Aug 14 03:14 bayes_toks.expire5705 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.3M Sep 12 2006 bayes_toks.expire5786 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.2M Sep 12 2006 bayes_toks.expire5787 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.2M Aug 9 17:36 bayes_toks.expire5848 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 136K Aug 7 16:04 bayes_toks.expire5916 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 72K Jul 29 19:20 bayes_toks.expire6116 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 1.1M Sep 12 2006 bayes_toks.expire6252 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 4.3M Aug 11 16:25 bayes_toks.expire7599 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 8.9M Aug 6 22:07 bayes_toks.expire7627 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 520K Sep 13 2006 bayes_toks.expire7870 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 520K Sep 13 2006 bayes_toks.expire7871 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 4.3M Aug 11 14:38 bayes_toks.expire7930 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 3.0M Sep 14 2006 bayes_toks.expire8115 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.3M Sep 12 2006 bayes_toks.expire8517 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.4M Sep 9 2006 bayes_toks.expire9277 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 1.1M Aug 8 22:03 bayes_toks.expire9377 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 4.3M Aug 11 11:10 bayes_toks.expire9380 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.9M Aug 9 2006 bayes_toks.expire9467 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 1.1M Aug 14 2006 bayes_toks.expire958 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.1M Aug 14 15:20 bayes_toks.expire9709 -rw------- 1 <user> <user> 2.2M Aug 6 11:24 bayes_toks.expire9982 -rw-r--r-- 1 <user> <user> 1.5K Jan 30 2006 user_prefs
I had a quick read of this... http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BayesFaq
I'm now overwhelmed with information on SA's Bayes Filter, yet I have no idea exactly what these files are for, how this works, why they are needed, how to deal with them or anything.
How should I handle these files so they are not taking up so much space?
What is the actual purpose of these files?
If I remove the bayes_toks* files, how will this impact this user?
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