Re: [fetchmail-users] [solved] non-default "mailbox selection failed"

[Travis O. <tr...@ws...>]

On 05/24/12 17:59, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Travis Osterman <tr...@ws...> wrote:
>> Hello, I am trying to use fectchmail to fetch the contents of a folder
>> (.spam.missed/) from my courier-imap server so that I can send the
>> messages to spamassassin's learning program.  Using this as a guide:
>> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SingleUserUnixInstall#Enable_IMAP_LearnAsSpam_folder
>>
>> When I invoke
>> $ /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -v -n --folder /home/USER/.maildir/.spam.missed/
>> -m '/usr/bin/sa-learn -D --spam' --fetchmailrc /home/USER/.spamtrainingpoprc
> That's not a mailbox path - that's a file system path. Try passing the
> mailbox as the argument (presumably .spam.missed).
>

I tried that (.spam.missed/) and .spam/.missed/ both with no luck.  I
did however spend some more time reading through the man page on
'sa-learn' which does take the directory as an argument and I can then
delete them.  With this solution, I don't need procmail or a saved a
cleartext password (but is dependent on access to cron).

#!/bin/bash
# spam training
FALSE_NEGS=/home/tosterma/.maildir/.spam.missed/
sa-learn --spam $FALSE_NEGS > /dev/null 2>&1
rm -f $FALSE_NEGS/new/*
rm -f $FALSE_NEGS/cur/*

Still not sure why it didn't like that directory.

-- T