On Wed, 12 May 2004, You wrote: > Hi folks, > Sorry to bother you with this (I have spent the past several days > attempting to join the SpamAssassin-users list but after confirming the > confirmation message (several times w/ different address') and e-mailing > the list-owner (once) I have yet to gain access, so I turn to you all). > > I am looking to set Spam Assassin up for site-wide Spam tagging, but it > seems that the SA-Learn utility builds user specific Bayesian databases. > Can anyone enlighten me on how I can use Auto-Learn and sa-learn to teach > my system sitewide? There are several ways listed on the spamassassin web page. One way is to use postfix/amavisd-new/and spamassassin together. spamassassin gets run as the amavis user and as such stores all of its information in the amavis home dir. > Also I currently have one Linux Login which recieves mail for several > e-mail address' specifically one for each list that I am on, is using the > practice of pointing sa-learn to these list e-mails a bad practice? I > took it as an easy way to feed sa-learn HAM messages but now I am thinking > that it may just be negatively skewing messages sent to these address' > such as this one (fedoraAAATTTb-dub.org). you shouls feed the Bayes filter with equal numbers of spam and ham based on a sample of ALL of the different types of mail you receive, not just ML messages. HTH, Tom
