On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:31:03 -0800 Jack Bowling <jbinpg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:05:23PM -0500, Neil B. Cohen 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". > > > > So I have a couple of questions: > > > > 1) Am I doing something wrong here? How do I get it to process all > > 250 messages (or did it and it just didn't tell me?) > > > > 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? > > > > For the record, I'm using Evolution to move messages from my input > > folder into the spam folder, and I ran sa-learn under my own > > account, not as root... > > Funny, I just changed my .procmailrc to send all my spam to /dev/null > rather than copy to a spam folder. Reason? Cuz I have been getting > absolutely zero false positives or negatives through the FC SA. I only > did a couple of sa-learns and it was all tuned up. And yes, it only > ever coughed up "learned from 1 message" so this may be a hard-wired > output. Maybe, but I did one earlier and it said it learned non-spam from 600+ and spam from 25+ messages. I call anything with html in it spam, too, or that one might have been empty. Nonetheless, I certainly got a different message in both cases. -- SirCam - Innovative Microsoft peer-to-peer software.
