On Friday 12 March 2004 02:46 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! > Short answer: - Get all your spam into a single file (mbox format). - Get all your ham (non-spam) into a single file (mbox format) For me, I use procmail to sort my mail. I count anything that reaches my inbox as ham, anything in archive as ham, and anything in Junk as spam. Is sort all spam into the Junk folder, and I add files manually there that get through. I have edited my crontab as follows: $ export EDITOR=<your favorite editor> $ crontab -e Add the lines: 5 1 * * * sa-learn --ham --mbox /var/spool/mail/<your username> 5 2 * * * sa-learn --spam --mbox ~/mail/Junk 5 3 * * * sa-leran --ham --mbox ~/mail/archive and save the file. Check your crontab with "crontab -l". This will be different depending on your configuration, but this should get you started. Now, every day spam assassin will learn from the latest spam and ham. -- Jonathan Gardner jgardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
