Jason Morrill wrote:
> I'm hoping that somebody here has done what I'm attempting to do.
>
> My users use a web-mail front end for reading email. There is an
> option to Mark-As-Spam which moves the message into a SPAM folder and
> removes it from their current folder. Very easy to train even the
> most inexperienced users to do this!
>
> The tricky part comes when training Spam Assassin. I'd like a nightly
> script to run for every user without the need for a cron job for
> every single user. This ideal single script would train Spam Assassin
> as if it were each user in turn and sync their personal database.
>
> Something like this pseudo-script:
> for each user in /home
> sa-learn --ham the-ham-folder
> sa-learn --spam the-spam-folder
> sa-learn --sync
> next user
>
> It seems so simple but I'm having all kinds of trouble getting
> sa-learn to understand that I'm changing users and databases.
>
> I've tried using 'sudo' and 'sa-learn' with limited success.
>
> I've also tried Mail::SpamAssassin but I can't get it to spit back
> anything. Instead I get messages like this:
> "Can't call method "dump_bayes_db" on an undefined value at
> /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 538."
>
> All suggestions are appreciated. Here's the technical info if you'd
> like: Debian Woody
> SpamAssassin version 3.0.4
> Exim version 3.35
> MailScanner version 4.40.11
If these are real users, then the script should be fairly simple.
For each user do this:
su - username -c sa-learn --ham /path/to/ham
su - username -c sa-learn --spam /path/to/spam
For virtual users, it's a bit more complicated. You should be able to
do something like this for each user:
$HOME=/virtual/home/directory
$SADIR=$HOME/spamassassin
sa-learn --ham --dbpath $SADIR/bayes
--prefs-file=$SADIR/user_prefs --dir $HOME/path/to/ham
sa-learn --spam --dbpath $SADIR/bayes
--prefs-file=$SADIR/user_prefs --dir $HOME/path/to/spam
The sa-learn commands should be all on one line...
Make sure you are logged on as the user who owns the databases.
You may be able to leave off the --prefs-file option, I'm not sure.
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Bowie
