Training SpamAssassin

[Sinister Midget]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:31:03 -0800
Jack Bowling <jbinpg at shaw.ca> wrote:

> 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.

Maybe, but I did one earlier and it said it learned non-spam from 600+
and spam from 25+ messages. I call anything with html in it spam, too,
or that one might have been empty. Nonetheless, I certainly got a
different message in both cases.

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