[ILUG] Usefull Spamassassin rule generator

[Brian Brazil]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:00:19PM +0000, Conor Wynne wrote:
> [spammy at weeboy spammy]$ sa-learn --spam --mbox /var/spool/mail/spammy
> Learned from 559 message(s) (561 message(s) examined).
>
> But should I have not run that as root or does it make a difference? 

>From my experiance this will put the data it collects in
$HOME/.spamassassin/{some-db-files}

Look into the --dbpath option of sa-learn. Otherwise only 'spammy'
will use bayes. Maybe put it in your homedir or some global location???

Thinking for a second a good method is for /var/spool/mail/spammy
to be 644. Then add a cron job for everyone to do a sa-learn --spam
on it regularly. This will allow personal ham/spam while using the spam
trap. Truncate that file regularly. Still holds on a one-user system.

> Am I going about this the right way and how do i know spamassassin is
> working correctly? 

Try that header line I gave. Make sure you display the X-Spam-Status header.
If that is there then spamassassin is being run (Technically the
X-Spam-Checker-Version is the only header gaurenteed to exist).

I'd suggest the subject rewrite with report safe 0 until you know its
working.

Please note I set up spamassassin a few days ago because I was a bit bored.

Personally I use procmail to seperate out my spam into a seperate
mailbox. I then have some mutt macros to pass messages to sa-learn if the 
bayes is wrong.

Brian