On Dec 13, 2003, "Neil B. Cohen" <nbc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have installed SpamAssassin on my mail server and it works very well. > But it is still picking up only 50-60% of the junk delivered to my > mailbox. So recently I started saving the junk that gets through into a > SPAM folder and then I tried running > sa-learn --spam --file spambox > on that folder. I had 250+ messages in the folder, but when it finishes, > it says something like "Learned from 1 message". If it's an mbox file, use --mbox, not --file. --file is for one message in a file. > 2) Can I expect to get SpamAssassin to get up to the point of getting > rid of 90% or 95% of the junk that crosses the Net these days? It does for me, but it's very important that you train it not only with spam, but also with good e-mail, otherwise you may skew the results or not even have enough data for it to kick in. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer
