[ILUG] spamassassin

[Darragh Bailey]

Been using this for a short while and I've been running into the same problem 
all the time with regards to using imap folders with sa-learn.

If I use the following command line
sa-learn --spam mail/spam-mailbox

I get the response
Learned from 1 message(s) (1 message(s) examined).

which tells me it read it only as one message due to the imap folder entry at 
the start of the folder. sa-learn it appears doesn't deal with the imap header 
that is in every imap folder.

Trying the following
icat mail/spam-mailbox | sa-learn --spam --mbox

I basically get the below.

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string 
at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/ArchiveIterator.pm line 334.
unable to open : No such file or directory
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) 
at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/ArchiveIterator.pm line 324.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) 
at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/ArchiveIterator.pm line 324.
Use of uninitialized value in string 
at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/ArchiveIterator.pm line 331.


As far as I can tell, due to using imap folders, the only way I can get sa-
learn to accept the mail and read it correctly is:
icat ~/mail/spam-mailbox > ~/spammail; sa-learn --spam --mbox ~/spammail; rm 
~/spammail


This seems a little cumbersome but does work fine and as required sees the 
folder contains about 270 mails.

The following also works:
icat ~/mail/spam-mailbox > ~/spammail; sa-learn --spam --mbox < ~/spammail; rm 
~/spammail


Am I missing something simple that would allow me to accomplish this in one 
command, or is it basically that it just doesn't support this yet.

I have an alias set up to read through both a spam and a ham folder and rebuild 
the database afterwards.

alias auto-sa-learn='icat ~/mail/spam-mailbox > ~/spam-mailbox; sa-learn --
spam --no-rebuild --mbox < ~/spam-mailbox; icat ~/mail/spam-ham-mailbox > 
~/spam-ham-mailbox; sa-learn --ham --no-rebuild --mbox < ~/spam-ham-mailbox; rm 
~/spam*mailbox; sa-learn --rebuild'


But even though it works, I'm not particularly happy that its the best way to 
this.
-- 
Darragh

"Nothing's foolproof to a sufficently talented fool"