Small question ( sa-learn, verbose spamassassin report )

[Sean Kennedy <sk...@tpno.org>]

After my messages have been processed by my SA installation, if they are 
spam, they get attached to the actual spam report.

Now, will sa-learn learn from the spam report message as well as the 
attachment? Or just the attachment? 

Any help is greatly apprecaited.  Thanks!

Sean

Re: Small question ( sa-learn, verbose spamassassin report )

[Bob Apthorpe <ap...@cynistar.net>]

Hi,

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Sean Kennedy wrote:

> Bob Apthorpe wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Sean Kennedy wrote:
> >>
> >>Now, will sa-learn learn from the spam report message as well as the
> >>attachment? Or just the attachment?
> >
> >sa-learn strips off the SA markup and learns from the original message.
> >
> Thank you.  I'd hoped and figured, but I wasn't having much luck finding
> the info ( which told me it was a small and stupid thing.  :) )

It's not completely obvious, it's buried in the fourth paragraph under
Description in 'man sa-learn', beneath 2-3 pages of option flags.

       SpamAssassin remembers which mail messages it's learnt
       already, and will not re-learn those messages again,
       unless you use the --forget option.  Messages learnt as
       spam will have SpamAssassin markup removed, on the fly.

The docs probably should be clarified because this is a good question; the
answer is easy to miss. I'd hate to think that someone spent months
unnecessarily funnelling their spam through 'spamassassin -d' before
passing it so sa-learn.

-- Bob

Re: Small question ( sa-learn, verbose spamassassin report )

[Sean Kennedy <sk...@tpno.org>]

Bob Apthorpe wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Sean Kennedy wrote:
>
>  
>
>>After my messages have been processed by my SA installation, if they are
>>spam, they get attached to the actual spam report.
>>
>>Now, will sa-learn learn from the spam report message as well as the
>>attachment? Or just the attachment?
>>    
>>
>
>sa-learn strips off the SA markup and learns from the original message.
>
>-- Bob
>  
>
Thank you.  I'd hoped and figured, but I wasn't having much luck finding 
the info ( which told me it was a small and stupid thing.  :) )

Re: Small question ( sa-learn, verbose spamassassin report )

[Bob Apthorpe <ap...@cynistar.net>]

Hi,

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Sean Kennedy wrote:

> After my messages have been processed by my SA installation, if they are
> spam, they get attached to the actual spam report.
>
> Now, will sa-learn learn from the spam report message as well as the
> attachment? Or just the attachment?

sa-learn strips off the SA markup and learns from the original message.

-- Bob