How do I teach Spam Assassin?

Chris Kloiber ckloiber at redhat.com
Sun Mar 14 12:28:47 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 20:22, Ben Stringer wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 21:17, John Lagrue wrote:
> > Charles Howse wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Since reading this thread, I've started using sa-learn regularly. I run
> spamd (as root), so I have made sure I run all my sa-learn invocations
> as root, and the bayes files are being updated in
> ~root/.spamassassin/bayes_*
> 
> It's not clear to me from the spamd manpage if spamd it will use these
> files or not. If it does, then my procedure should be fine. Can anyone
> confirm if spamd run as root does use the .spamassassin file's in roots
> homedir when it starts up?
> 
> Thanks, Ben

I haven't really looked into teaching spamassassin yet, but I'd like to.
Is there a way to use sa-learn when you are using Evolution? (I'd
*really* like spam/ham buttons to feed sa-learn)

-- 
Chris Kloiber, RHCX
Red Hat, Inc.





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