sa-learn and SpamAssassin

[Jim Strickland <jims@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have an IMAP account set up with a folder for junkmail and a folder 
for good mail. When I run sa-learn on these folders to train 
SpamAssassin, I get the following.

[Mail:~] root# sa-learn --spam --dir 
/var/spool/mailbox/434/spamassassin/junkmail
Failed to create default user preference file 
/var/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs
Learned from 276 messages.
[Mail:~] root# sa-learn --ham --dir 
/var/spool/mailbox/434/spamassassin/Goodmail
Failed to create default user preference file 
/var/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs
Learned from 243 messages.
[Mail:~] root# ls -alt .spamassassin/
total 2760
drwx------   5 root  wheel      170 Nov 24 09:19 .
-rw-------   1 root  wheel    90112 Nov 24 09:19 bayes_seen
-rw-------   1 root  wheel     1534 Nov 24 09:19 bayes_msgcount
-rw-------   1 root  wheel  1318912 Nov 24 09:19 bayes_toks
drwxr-x---  14 root  wheel      476 Nov 18 13:08 ..

The part that concerns me is the first response I get after running 
the sa-learn command, failing to create default user preference file. 
Is this a normal response that I should not be too concerned about or 
is this a sign that despite all appearances, SpamAssassin is not 
truly learning from the sa-learn command? You also see above the 
response I get from ls -alt .spamassassin/. I'm not exactly sure what 
each of the line means. It looks like SpamAssassin is learning, but 
since the default user pref file is failing to create, am I going to 
lose all training the next time the email server is rebooted?

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

--
James Strickland - MCP
IT Manager
American Roamer
901-377-8585
http://www.americanroamer.com

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