Re: [sa-list] Re: Learning and reporting with spamc in a single step?

["Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <da...@prime.gushi.org>]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 16:52 -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
>> Can spamc do this, or must it be forked to "tee" or something.
>>
>> Ideally I'd like to both report and learn in a single step (such as in a
>> pipe from alpine).  I note that spamassassin -r also has the option to
>> learn (by default!), but spamc doesn't for some reason.  Or if it does,
>> the manpage neglects to mention it.
>
> Hmm, man spamc shows -L learn type and -C report type right next to each
> other. Yours doesn't?

It shows them top to bottom, but does not say whether they're exclusive or 
not.  As for the usage summary...

%spamc -V
SpamAssassin Client version 3.2.3
   compiled with SSL support (OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004)

SYNOPSIS
        spamc [options] < message

is less than helpful in determining which options work together.

> If you actually can use both options at the same time, I don't know.
> Maybe you wanna try it, and let us know. :)

I wonder what the logs show (or are supposed to show) during these 
operations.

-Dan

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Re: Learning and reporting with spamc in a single step?

[Karsten Bräckelmann <gu...@rudersport.de>]

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 13:53 -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> > If you actually can use both options at the same time, I don't know.
> > Maybe you wanna try it, and let us know. :)

Ah, having spamc talk to netcat just showed it nicely. Both -L and -C do
use the same TELL command, with a difference in the Set header. While -L
learn is Set: local only, -C report is Set: local,remote.

So, yes, reporting with spamc -C does work the same as spamassassin -r
does. Both also do Bayes training. A quick glimpse through the spamd
code confirms this, btw.


However, as can be trivially observed by just trying it and providing
*both* options, -C and -L, results in an error. Exit code 64, EX_USAGE,
command line usage error.

No need to anyway, as -C report includes -L learn.


> I wonder what the logs show (or are supposed to show) during these 
> operations.

Maybe... Try it and watch your logs?


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