Re: [AMaViS-user] How to use sa-learn to manually train?

[Bartosz J. <ba...@cq...>]

>
>
> SamW wrote:
> >
> > Here is how I use the sa-learn to train the bayes filter in version SA
> > 2.63. I am using amavisd-new-p9 / sa 2.63 / sendmail
> >
> > I asked our users to send a mail to sp...@my... if the users see a
> > spam message. If they see a non spam (ham) message they send a mail to
> > no...@my.... Note that the messages that the user receives is
> > already tagged with X-Spam-* headers
> >
> > I then run following 2 commands, to train the sa 4 times a day through a
> > crontab.
> >
> >         /usr/local/bin/sa-learn --spam --mbox /var/mail/spam
> >         /usr/local/bin/sa-learn --spam --mbox /var/mail/notspam
>                                    ^^^^^^                ^^^^^^^^^
>
> Shouldn't that be 'ham' instead ?  A typo, but a crucial one...
>
> Second, your users should only use the bounce or redirect messages
> option.  Do not have them forward their mail to an account, as some
> clients do it differently.  Some forward them as attachments, others
> inline, others quoted...
>
> Your other option is for them to file or save the messages in a spam or
> ham folder.  A script could visit all of these folders and train sa
> accordingly.
>
> My .02...
>
> My .02...
>

So simply saying I cannot use, for example, forward option in Outlook
Express
to forward spam messages into other e-mail box where I can run sa-learn ?

Bart