Re: Don't wait for sa-learn

["Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On 20 Mar 2006, mange@freemail.hu wrote:

> "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>
>> I don't know if this is a good idea.  If you submit multiple jobs at
>> once, does sa-learn do the right thing?  I use a version heavily
>> customized by my ISP, so I don't know if the vanilla SpamAssassin will
>> work.
>
> Some source diving tells me that it tries to acquire a lock on the
> file, and fails after ten retries (one second between each), so it
> should be safe.

That seems like a bad situation to me, because the sa-learn run has
the potential to fail silently if the first run is longer than 10
seconds.  Maybe we need to set up a job queue.  That may be hard to
implement, although it will be generally useful.

I'm OK with adding a variable instead, spam-train-in-background, which
is nil by default but can be turned on for specific backends.

Any opinions?

Ted