On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Ed Flecko wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.3.2 (running on Perl version
5.14.2) on FreeBSD 9.0.
I've exported a bunch of spam and ham messages from my Baracuda 400.
What format did the Barracuda export the messages in? It might be possible
to directly feed that to sa-learn if it exported them in one of the
"standard" mailbox formats.
I have an Excel .csv file of about 2500 spam messages and 2500 ham
messages, and I'm wondering if I can supply those as a parameter to
sa-learn? I've looked at the documentation
(http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/sa-learn.html) and I
see that you can pass the file as a parameter, but I'm not clear how
you'd do that and in what format the file needs to be? CAN it be a
.csv or should it be something else?
sa-learn expects either Berkeley-style mailbox files (i.e. RFC-822-format
messages separated by "From {stuff about sender}", or mbox
one-message-per-file format. If your mailboxes aren't hosted on Windows,
then take a look at your inbox file in a text editor to get an idea of the
file format. (try "vi $MAIL" if you use vi)
I'm new to spamassassin, but (for those of you more familiar with the
product), "teaching" spamassassin is TYPICALLY the first thing one
would do before deploying it in a production environment, wouldn't
you?
Not necessarily the first thing, but certainly done early on. SA does
fairly well without Bayes, especially if you have DNSBLs and URIBLs
enabled, so you don't necessarily need to get it trained before turning it
on in production. You can cut down on spam while getting it trained up.
You should turn off autolearn until you've trained it and are sure bayes
is giving good results.
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