WA9ALS - John wrote: > Today I made a procmail entry like this: > > :0 H > * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes > $HOME/mail/caughtspam
Fine. But H is the default and does not need to be specified. But it won't hurt if you do anyway. If caughtspam is a single file then you need to make that :0: with a trailing : to get a lock file. That is very important or you can have mailbox corruption as several processes all write to the file at the same time. If caughtspam is not a file then you need to call it either caughtspam/ or caughtspam/. depending upon if you want Maildir/ style folders or MH style folders. > However, the files are named msg.dk and msg.ek. Being a Linux newbie, I'm > not familiar with those filenames. Looking at the files with vim shows that > they are indeed the spam emails. You have mistakenly made a directory called caughtspam and procmail is falling back to a safe mode for putting files there. That is probably not what you want. But the messages were saved. None were lost. Do you want a Berkeley style mbox with all messages in one file? That is the traditional folder format. In which case you need to remove or rename the directory and let procmail create it as a file. mv caughtspam caughtspam.save touch caughtspam :0: $HOME/mail/caughtspam Do you want a MH style mail directory? This keeps messages one message per file but still needs locking. That means a trailing : on the rule. mv caughtspam caughtspam.save mkdir caughtspam :0: $HOME/mail/caughtspam/. Do you want a Maildir/ style mail directory? This keeps messages one message per file but does not need locking. So no trailing : means no lockfile. Maildir format is the newest format. I use it. But some mail clients don't have code for it yet. mv caughtspam caughtspam.save mkdir caughtspam caughtspam/tmp caughtspam/new caughtspam/cur :0 $HOME/mail/caughtspam/ > Can I run SA learn on that directory as is? If your messages are one message per file (either MH or Maildir/ format) then this will send them one at a time to sa-learn. [I prefer find for these things because even on a HUGE number of files in a directory this works. But if you have a small directory then of course 'for f in *;do sa-learn --single --spam < $f;done' works too. But when it gets large that will overflow ARGS_MAX whereas find and xargs will always work. find caughtspam -type f -print0 | xargs -r0l sa-learn --single --spam If your messages are in one Berkelely mbox format file then use formail to send one message at a time to sa-learn. formail -s sa-learn --single --spam < caughtspam Don't forget to do the --ham learning from your normal mailbox too. You want similar numbers of both if possible. Bob
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