[ILUG] spamassassin

[Kenn Humborg]

> What I have is a number of mail folders under ~/mail/, each mail 
> folder is 
> basically a file that contains all the mails and the problem that 
> spamassassin 
> has in reading in from these directly is with the following folder header
>
> From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Mar  3 10:38:52 2004
> Date: 03 Mar 2004 10:38:52 +0000
> From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON at compsoc.nuigalway.ie>
> Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
> Message-ID: <1078310332 at compsoc.nuigalway.ie>
> X-IMAP: 1077182741 0000000428
> Status: RO
> 
> This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
> a real message.  It is created automatically by the mail system software.
> If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created
> with the data reset to initial values.
...
> Am i missing something, can sa-learn handle the extra imap folder data 
> correctly, or is it that I'll just have to stick with creating a 
> temporary file 
> that contains the mbox without the extra imap folder and feed the 
> temp mbox 
> into sa-learn and then delete it.

Have you tried this?  I think you're jumping to conclusions by saying:
> the problem that spamassassin has in reading in from these 
> directly is with the following folder header

I can't see why sa-learn should treat the "magic" first message 
specially.  It's just a standard email message that happens to have 
an X-IMAP header that uw-imapd's (or maybe its cclient library) uses.

Make the following mboxes:

   o  one with only the "special" mesage
   o  one with only a normal message
   o  one with only two normal messages
   o  one with both special and normal

Run them all through sa-learn --mbox and post your results.

Later,
Kenn