On 04 Jul 2003, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Friday 04 July 2003 9:34 am, SRIKANTH NS wrote: > > Hi > > Disgusted with the amount of spam received, I installed > > Spamassassin2.54 and configured it, It works properly for the past one > > month. I use fetchmail to receive mail and invoke sylpheed to read > > them from /var/spool/ mail/ srikanth folder and the spam goes to > > "caughtspam " file in my home directory . > > > > Nowadays I see one or two mails slipping past spamassassin. I saw that > > spamassassin can be trained. man pages did not reveal much. Since the > > mails are read in sylpheed how to point it out to SA? > > sa-learn command also does not work, it says command is not found. > > Can any body give some pointers or some links where tutroials can be > > read.? > > Thanks in advance > > > > N S Srikanth > > I do this: > > sa-learn --spam --dir /home/Marino/Mail/Spam/cur > sa-learn --ham --dir /home/Marino/Mail/inbox/cur > > Note that /home/Marino/Mail/Spam/cur is the directory where I keep spam (I use > KMail). /home/Marino/Mail/inbox/cur is where my good mail is (ham). > >
Not exactly a reply to the question, but I find that spamprobe is both easier to configure and more reliable than spamassassin (and bogofilter). AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]