Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 03 February 2007 09:49, Matt Kettler wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: >> >>> On Friday 02 February 2007 22:28, Matt Kettler wrote: >>> >>>> Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> >>>>> Greetings; >>>>> >>>>> SA 3.1.7, driven by procmail, feeding it all on to kmail for >>>>> sorting. >>>>> >>>>> I have ceased running sa-learn --ham on false positives for the last >>>>> couple of months because it nulls the message since I installed FC6. >>>>> Is there a way to preserve the message in the case of teaching it >>>>> ham, that it made a mistake? >>>>> >>>> Erm, can you be really specific on how you're calling sa-learn --ham? >>>> >>>> It's not supposed to modify the message file in any way.. if it is, >>>> somethings wrong.. >>>> >>>> Now, if you've got something trying to pipe a message through >>>> sa-learn --ham, that will fail and generate an empty "message". >>>> sa-learn isn't a pipe it does not echo the message back out to >>>> stdout. >>>> >>>> However, running things like this should be safe for "somefile": >>>> >>>> sa-learn --ham /path/somefile >>>> >>>> >>>> However this is not, and will destroy somefile: >>>> >>>> echo somefile | sa-learn --ham > somefile >>>> >>> Actually, the correct syntax appears to be: >>> sa-learn --ham (or --spam) -L -f /pathto/Mail/spam)|ham/cur. >>> >> 1) -L is, at the moment, pointless. It does nothing. You can leave it >> in, but in future versions this could reduce learning accuracy. Should >> they ever add DNS or other network-dependent tokens to bayes, the -L >> switch would suppress learning them. (This would be the only way -L >> could matter). In general, I would say it's inadvisable to pass -L to >> sa-learn, unless you always scan mail in -L mode. (no point in learning >> network-test tokens when you're never going to scan for them..) >> > > Ok, thats not a problem to drop. > > >> 2) you DO NOT want to do -f, unless you've got a file containing a LIST >> of files to be learned. If you want to learn a MESSAGE, drop the -f. >> > > The target is a directory containing messages I've drag & dropped there > with kmail because of an SA miss-fire. > Then do NOT use -f.
Like I said, -f expects a FILE containing a LIST OF FILES. It does not expect a directory. It does not expect an email. If you feed sa-learn a directory name, without the -f, it will automatically read all the files in the directory as individual emails. ie, this command works: sa-learn /home/training/spam/ Assuming /home/training/spam/ is a directory containing emails. sa-learn -f /home/training/spam/ Will probably try to treat it as a directory full of files each containing lists of files. That's not what you have. You have a directory of emails.
