Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I was perusing the man pages for spamd in spamassassin 3.1.7, and came > across something that seems to imply that I can use spamc to tell spamd > to update a sitewide bayesian database: > > -l, --allow-tell > Allow learning and forgetting (to a local Bayes database), > reporting and revoking (to a remote database) by spamd. The > client issues a TELL command to tell what type of message is > being processed and whether local (learn/forget) or remote > (report/revoke) databases should be updated. > > However, I can't find any explanation of how to actually *do* this. What > am I missing here? >
Indeed, --allow-tell turns on the TELL command for the spamd protocol. You can find more about the protocol here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/trunk/spamd/PROTOCOL You only need to worry about the specifics of the protocol if you aren't going to using spamc, since spamc has the commands built in. >From the spamc man page: -L learn type Send message to spamd for learning. The "learn type" can be either spam, ham or forget. The exitcode for spamc will be set to 5 if the message was learned, or 6 if it was already learned. Note that the "spamd" must run with the "--allow-tell" option for this to work. And: -C report type Report or revoke a message to one of the configured collaborative filtering databases. The "report type" can be either report or revoke. Note that the "spamd" must run with the "--allow-tell" option for this to work. And example might be: spamc -u <username> -L spam < spammsg.txt There are also extensions available for Thunderbird and Outlook that do this for you: http://sourceforge.net/projects/soc2006spamd/ Michael
