Mark Martinec wrote: > > tonjg wrote: >> I'm trying to run: >> sa-learn --spam --showdots --dir /path/to...mbox >> but it fails with: >> 'Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (0 messages examined)' >> my spam mail is in a file called mbox but when I run the above command to >> the directory containg mbox it always fails with the '0 messages >> examined' error. > > If your messages are in a mbox *file*, you need an option --mbox, > not --dir . > > smfabac wrote: >> I am having a similar problem as the poster but I have successfully run >> spamassassin for several years and today when I used the sa-lean >> command to process the mailbox where I moved the mis-classified >> mail message (not-spam) I get: >> >> $ sa-learn --showdots --ham --mbox not-spam >> >> Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined) > >> Check the mail folder not-spam: > > If "not-spam" is a folder (not a mbox file), you must not > use the option --mbox. > > Mark > > >
Mark, On UNIX any file is a mbox file if it contains mail messages in the form: ^A^A^A^A mail headers mail body ^A^A^A^A ^A^A^A^A Next Message mail headers mail body ^A^A^A^A And my not-spam file meets this requirement: ^A^A^A^A >From smf Thu Feb 11 01:30:02 2010 From: Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerb...@zenez.com> To: distribut...@registry.ca ... stuff deleted ... ------------=_4B73B21B.8398EDEC-- ^A^A^A^A Also, reading the file with the command "mail -f not-spam" launches the UNIX mail reader showing that the file is legal mbox file. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/bayes-learning-%270-messages-found%27-tp27358517p27566692.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
