Hello Blake,
Tuesday, October 28, 2003, 7:27:20 PM, you wrote: BTG> I have two imap folders HAM and SPAM. SA 2.6 moves incoming spam as it BTG> finds it into SPAM. I have a cron job that runs sa-learn ham/spam BTG> nightly on these two folders. BTG> 2 - I have a ton of emails in SPAM. Is it safe to delete an email from BTG> SPAM once sa-learn has been run on it. Or do I have to keep all of my BTG> spam email hanging around. Once sa-learn is run you don't need to keep the file. I have a "spam" file that I also use for a sa-learn job each night, and I use a cron job to rotate only one backup copy. So basically in 2 days the original copy is gone. The only reason to keep old spam on hand is (a) if you might need to retrieve it because of false positives, and (b) if your Bayes database gets corrupted and you want to refeed the spam. But once Spamassassin has "learned" it, it has converted the email into tokens for the Bayes database and the original email is no longer needed. You DON'T want to refeed sa-learn the same email and you don't want a file that is being used for sa-learn to grow too large, for the following reason: If there is a timeout error, lock file error, or interruption during the sa-learn process, it can cause the entire Bayes database to become corrupted. This is unlikely to happen while sa-learn is working on a small file of fresh spam, as sa-learn will complete its run in a few seconds. But if the file grows very large, then the likelihood of something going wrong while the job is running increases. It is also a waste of resources to feed sa-learn email it has already seen, because it can't learn anything more than once anyway. -Abigail ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
