Training SpamAssassin

[Jack Bowling]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:05:23PM -0500, Neil B. Cohen wrote:
> I have installed SpamAssassin on my mail server and it works very well.
> But it is still picking up only 50-60% of the junk delivered to my
> mailbox. So recently I started saving the junk that gets through into a
> SPAM folder and then I tried running
> 
> sa-learn --spam --file spambox
> 
> on that folder. I had 250+ messages in the folder, but when it finishes,
> it says something like "Learned from 1 message".
> 
> So I have a couple of questions:
> 
> 1) Am I doing something wrong here? How do I get it to process all 250
> messages (or did it and it just didn't tell me?)
> 
> 2) Can I expect to get SpamAssassin to get up to the point of getting
> rid of 90% or 95% of the junk that crosses the Net these days?
> 
> For the record, I'm using Evolution to move messages from my input
> folder into the spam folder, and I ran sa-learn under my own account,
> not as root...

Funny, I just changed my .procmailrc to send all my spam to /dev/null
rather than copy to a spam folder. Reason? Cuz I have been getting
absolutely zero false positives or negatives through the FC SA. I only
did a couple of sa-learns and it was all tuned up. And yes, it only
ever coughed up "learned from 1 message" so this may be a hard-wired
output.

-- 
Jack Bowling
mailto: jbinpg at shaw.ca