-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 March 2004 09:34 am, Nigel Wade wrote: > Charles Howse wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wednesday 24 March 2004 08:29 am, Markku Kolkka wrote: > >>Charles Howse kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 24. > >> > >>maaliskuuta 2004 15:18): > >>>The question is: is it wrong to train spamassassin by running > >>>sa --learn on the same msgs ( + or - a few) over and over? > >> > >>sa-learn remembers the messages it has already seen and ignores > >>them if you try to teach them again. So, it's not wrong, just a > >>waste of time. > > > > That's good to know. :-) > > So I could set a cron job to run once a month, in the wee hours and have > > it do: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > for i in Fedora inbox Kent Saved Stooges ; do > > > > echo "Learning from" $i > > sa-learn --ham --dir /home/charles/Mail/$i/* > > > > done > > > > sa-learn --spam --dir /home/charles/Mail/Spam/* > > > > exit 0 > > > > The results would then be emailed to me from the cron daemon. > > Don't do the inbox in the wee hours, any new messages you receive between > the last to time you looked at your mail and the time the cron job runs > will be learned as ham, even if it's spam. You'd need to undo that > manually. I always close my mail client when away from the computer for any length of time (like overnight), so I should be OK there. > > Also, be careful if you use imap. If you move/delete messages from a > mailbox they remain until those changes are committed. When that actually > happens depends on the mail client and how it's configured. So, there's a > possibility that spam might remain in your inbox even after you've > deleted/moved it. Hmmm...I use KMail 1.6, and have the settings for my ISP mail, as well as the 2 other computers on my home lan set to "Delete mail from server after fetching." There is no setting like that for local accounts, but I don't expect any spam from myself. ;-) > > (Don't forget to make sure sa-learn is on the path for cron). It is. :-) - -- Charles Howse Jackson, TN Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYa54/S+VsB9RMKgRAk3RAJkBeOPbWBS+0EplSzkf19L/O4TukwCeLWvG YFibCBLDOK3y+L6Sga+F3MA= =ASGn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
