Hi, help with spamc and sa-learn

[Exal de Jesus Garcia Carrillo <ex...@gnu.org>]

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Hi, I have already install spamassassin locally on my machine, now, I
want tell to spamassassin which message is spam and which isn't, I have
read about spamc and sa-learn, but how is you use exactly?, I mean I
read the manpage and show me the usage: "spamc [options] < message"
but... what does this mean, which message?, in some file may be?
 and sa-learn?, which is better?



thanks.
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Re: Hi, help with spamc and sa-learn

[maillist <ma...@emailacs.com>]

Exal de Jesus Garcia Carrillo wrote:
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> Hi, I have already install spamassassin locally on my machine, now, I
> want tell to spamassassin which message is spam and which isn't, I have
> read about spamc and sa-learn, but how is you use exactly?, I mean I
> read the manpage and show me the usage: "spamc [options] < message"
> but... what does this mean, which message?, in some file may be?
>  and sa-learn?, which is better?
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> thanks.
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To begin with, you are looking in the wrong man pages.  You should look 
in the man pages for sa-learn.  There's a lot there, and it's all pretty 
important that you fully understand it, and feel comfortable with it, 
it's not hard

 It all depends on what format your in-box is using.  If it is mbox 
format (Mostly used I believe), then the proper way to run sa-learn to 
learn spam is to first of all, get all of your spam messages into one 
single file, mbox style.  Lets pretend that the file you end up with is 
named /var/spool/mail/spam.  In that case, you would run:

sa-learn --spam --mbox /var/spool/mail/spam

If you want to learn ham (good email), and you have a file in that same 
directory called "ham", then run:

sa-learn --ham --mbox /var/spool/mail/ham.

-=Aubrey=-