On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Evan Platt wrote:

> Ok, so just to get a second (and third and so on opinion), I created 
> a user on my system, named it spambucket. Aliased the garbage 
> addresses to spambucket in /etc/postfix/aliases, then at midnight run
> 
> sa-learn --spam -u primaryuser --mbox /private/var/mail/spambucket
> 
> (primaryuser is my mail account).
> 
> For postfix is that correct?

No idea, I herd Sendmail cats.

> And then (yes, I know this is more a 
> postfix question), can I simply delete - rm /private/var/mail/spambucket ?

You can, but I like the idea of keeping the corpa around for review
and retraining should it become necessary.

> I think I can string this on one line, ie
> 
> sa-learn --spam -u primaryuser --mbox /private/var/mail/spambucket & 
> rm /private/var/mail/spambucket

I think you want to use && instead of & for that. "&&" is "proceed
only if the preceding step succeeded", where "&" would background the
sa-learn and then immediately get rid of the file you told it to
process.

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