Several people have asked about how to tell if sa-learn is learning, or not, and I have the same question (which does not seem to have been definitively answered in this list).
Here is my setup, which appears to be similar to that of others. I manually put email which I declare to be spam, but which is not so declared by spamassassin, into a folder called Missed-Spam. I then run the following command: sa-learn --spam --mbox ~/evolution/local/Inbox/subfolders/Missed-Spam/mbox I then get a message like "Learned from 0 message(s) (12 message(s) examined)". If I add the -D option, I also get messages such as: debug: Score set 0 chosen. debug: running in taint mode? yes debug: Running in taint mode, removing unsafe env vars, and resetting PATH debug: PATH included '/usr/local/bin', keeping. debug: PATH included '/usr/bin', keeping. debug: PATH included '/bin', keeping. debug: PATH included '/usr/X11R6/bin', keeping. debug: PATH included '/home/spa/bin', keeping. debug: Final PATH set to: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/spa/bin debug: using "/usr/share/spamassassin" for default rules dir debug: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site rules dir debug: using "/home/spa/.spamassassin/user_prefs" for user prefs file debug: bayes: DB_File module not installed, cannot use Bayes debug: Score set 0 chosen. debug: Initialising learner debug: Initialising learner debug: Syncing Bayes journal and expiring old tokens... debug: bayes: DB_File module not installed, cannot use Bayes debug: Syncing complete. debug: Learning Spam debug: uri tests: Done uriRE debug: bayes: DB_File module not installed, cannot use Bayes Some questions: 1 - What does "Learned from 0 message(s)" mean? My interpretation is that spamassassin already classified these messages as spam, so it did not alter its rules. But, I told it the messages are spam, so why didn't it learn anything? By the way, I believe I got this message the very first time I ran sa-learn on that mailbox, so I do not think that the problem (if it is one) occurs because I am running sa-learn twice on the same messages. 2 - What does "DB_File module not installed, cannot use Bayes" mean? I presume I failed to install something. Here is what I have installed (on my Red Hat 9 Linux system): rpm -qa|grep spam tells me that I have installed spamassassin-2.60-1 spamassassin-tools-2.60-1 Is something missing? If so, what, and where do I get it, and, also, how do I install it? A general comment: sure would be nice if there were a FAQ for newbies (like me) which would guide us through the installation/operation of spamassassin. Thanks for any help. Steve -- Steven P. Auerbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAIC, MS C/4 858-826-6493 (office) 10260 Campus Pt. Drive 619-723-1270 (cell/page) San Diego, CA 92121-1522 858-826-6587 (fax) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
