-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 14 March 2004 04:17 am, John Lagrue wrote: > Charles Howse wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Saturday 13 March 2004 02:36 pm, John Lagrue wrote: > >>Charles Howse wrote: > >>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>>Hash: SHA1 > >>> > >>>On Friday 12 March 2004 04:46 pm, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > >>>>I've been collecting spam email that's gotten past my Fedora Core 1 > >>>>installation of spam assassin (spamassassin-2.63-0.2) and I'd like to > >>>>"teach" spam assassin about these messages (update the heuristics to be > >>>>able to filter these messages that are getting past the filter by > >>>>default). > >>>> > >>>>Someone posted a command that does this on the list some time ago and > >>>>I've unfortunately lost that message. How can I teach spam assassin > >>>>(system wide) about this email? Thanks! > >>> > >>>man sa-learn will give you the details. > >>>Using KMail, I use the following to teach: > >>>sa-learn --spam --dir /home/charles/Mail/.Spam.directory/MissedSpam/* > >> > >>That does it if spamassassin in running on a per-user basis. However the > >>original question is how do we do this on a system-wide basis? Like, for > >>example, on my system where I filter ALL incoming mail with spamd before > >>sorting it into users' mailboxes. How in this case do I teach SA? > > > > Whoops! Excuse me for not reading the original question properly. > > > > In your case, each user will be getting missed spam in their "inbox", > > correct? > > > > The only thing that I can think of is for each user to have a > > "MissedSpam" folder, and be trained to move all spam to that folder. You > > probably don't want to run sa-learn on the inbox, some people never clean > > it up, leaving old msgs there instead of filing them in a sub folder. > > > > Then you could write a simple script that loops through each MissedSpam > > folder, and runs sa-learn. > > That won't work. Runnng sa-learn on indivual mailboxes creates (as far > as I understand it) a set of bayesian rules in the .spamassassin > directory for that user. But as spamd is running before each user's mail > is delivered then those rules will never be applied. > > I am trying to find out how to create system-wide learned rules for SA. OK then...my next best suggestion is to take your question to the spamassassin list. Good luck. :-) - -- Charles Howse Jackson, TN Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAVF6s/S+VsB9RMKgRAom8AJ9Jxt1FEjdBMegmWxbthfWAbEjdRQCeN4bi YODtiskI75oOYu4FY9uziGA= =6GiV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
