On Tuesday 21 April 2009, alexus wrote: >On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@verizon.net> wrote: >> On Monday 20 April 2009, alexus wrote: >>>i'm trying to teach my SA whats spam >>> >>>it's a brand new out of box SA, i have few domains that i dont get >>>anything but a spam and on the top seems like from same spamers as >>>they "picked" emails that they thought would be good to spam and keep >>>on spaming them >>> >>>so i do sa-learn --spam * >>>after a while it saying something like >>> >>>Learned tokens from 52 message(s) (52 message(s) examined) >>> >>>yet, when more of some what same email comes in it still can't >>>determinate if its spam or not... >>> >>>am i doing something wrong? or is sa-learn isn't suppose to work as i >>>thought it would.. >> >> You need to have it learn at least 200 messages of both 'ham' and 'spam' >> before it has enough data to switch to working mode. So sort them into >> separate directories, and have it learn both a clean inbox as ham, and an >> all spam directory. When it has learned those, it keep track and will not >> learn those particular emails again, so clean the spam box, just delete >> its contents. I even use a cleaned up, sorted to separate directories >> mailing list as ham just so it knows stuff from that list is generally >> ham. I had one list that I never figured out what was spammy about it, >> and since the corpus of that list went back several years, I fed the whole >> thing to SA as ham. Took it several hours but no more problems with that >> lists messages now. Now, the spam that does get through goes into a spam >> dir, and a cron job learns it, then deletes it daily. I'm lazy, and >> repetitive tasks are to be done by a cron fired script around this camp. >> :) >> >> -- >> Cheers, Gene >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. >> -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. > >how do I change my SA from learning mode to working mode?
I believe that is automatic once it has enough data. See above, 200 msgs of each type required IIRC. Understand that SA only rates the email, and puts its findings in the header. It is up to you to determine what is done with mail that is too spammy. I use procmail as the MTA from fetchmail, and procmail is configured to send anything that SA labels with 5 stars or over to /dev/null. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Delta: The kids will love our inflatable slides. -- David Letterman
