[ILUG] Problem's with SpamAssassin's sa-learn

[Des Keane]

Just so, you're missing the "--mbox" option. sa-learn defaults to maildir format (one message per file), whereas you've got mbox format (lots of messages all in one big file, like /var/mail/you).

Give it a whirl, everything else looks fine. BTW, you'll need at least 200 spams *and* 200 hams before SA will use your Bayesian database, so make sure you feed it some ham as well.

Des

----- Original Message -----
From: jm at jmason.org (Justin Mason)
Date: Sunday, May 9, 2004 1:46 am
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Problem's with SpamAssassin's sa-learn

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> Conall O'Brien writes:
> > On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 01:14:13AM IST, Justin Mason 
> > <jm at jmason.org> incoherently babbled:
> > 
> > > Conall O'Brien writes:
> > > >debug: 818976341.83991 at fqzofydadeoml@rb21ex.com: already learnt
> > > >correctly, not learning twice
> > > >Learned from 0 message(s) (1 message(s) examined).
> > > 
> > > there's the problem -- it's already been learned correctly, and
> > > sa-learn doesn't want to learn it twice. ;)
> > 
> > But the mailbox isn't being read properly. I'm manually filering all
> > the spam I get into that mailbox, hence why it's got more than 2000
> > messages, some which SpamAssassin recognises, and a lot of spam it
> > didn't catch because I can't train it yet...
> 
> SpamAssassin is only seeing one message.  Sounds like it's not
> expecting whatever the file format is.  I'd suggest making sure
> the command-line switches are right...
> 
> - --j.
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