I know it's been a couple weeks since I asked the question, but I wanted to thank those of you who responded. I ended up writing a shell script (example included below). I run it every day in a cron job.
Yeah I know it's not perfect but it's a good place to start. The main thing was being reminded about grep having not used it for the last 5 or so years in windows-land. In case anybody's wondering, I have procmail move suspected spam into spam/probably_spam and then the couple of us using this computer move our email into spam/definitely_spam when we clean out that mailbox. - Andrew. echo 'learning inbox as ham...' sa-learn --ham --showdots --mbox /var/mail/aclarke echo echo 'learning other folders as ham...' sa-learn --ham --showdots --mbox `find /home/aclarke/mail | grep '<non-spam folder regex>'` echo echo 'learning spam...' sa-learn --spam --showdots --mbox `find /home/aclarke/mail | grep 'definitely_spam\|missed_spam'` echo echo 'Re-learning incorrectly learned spam...' sa-learn --ham --showdots --mbox /home/aclarke/mail/spam/not_spam echo echo 'Deleting mail from temporary spam mailboxes...' cp /home/aclarke/blank_mail_folder /home/aclarke/mail/spam/definitely_spam cp /home/aclarke/blank_mail_folder /home/aclarke/mail/spam/not_spam echo echo 'Done!' On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 14:43, Eric Veltman wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > On Saturday 16 August 2003 22:29, Andrew Clarke wrote: > > I have multiple mailboxes in ~/mail, as do the other users on my server. > > ~/mail/spam/definitely_spam is an mbox that contains, well, spam. If I > > run: > > > > sa-learn --ham --mbox /home/someuser/mail/* > > > > it will autolearn the spam/definitely_spam mailbox as ham, which I > > obviously don't want. I can think of 2 workarounds: > > You can use a shell script or for instance this 'find' syntax : > > find /home/someuser/mail \ > -type f ! -name "definitely_spam" \ > -exec sa-learn --ham --mbox {} \; > > sa-learn --spam --mbox /home/someuser/mail/spam/definitely_spam > > Best regards, > > Eric Veltman ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk