after sa-learn on spam I get '0' messages read?

[Harry Putnam <re...@newsguy.com>]

Using spamassassin 3.3.2 on debian linux (testing)

I haven't tried teaching spamassasin spam from ham by hand before but
looking thru the docs I guess something like:

  sa-learn --spam spammail (Where spammail is mbox style file)

is supposed to be teaching Sa that those messages are spam.

But, the output I see from SA seem to indicate that nothing is really
happening.

 sa-learn --spam spammail
 Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined)

Is this normal output or does it mean just what it appears to, that
nothing was done?

The file is mbox format, at least 'mutt -f spam' reads it fine.

If that output does mean that nothing is happing, can anyone tell me
what I might be doing wrong?

Re: after sa-learn on spam I get '0' messages read?

[Harry Putnam <re...@newsguy.com>]

snowybunting <sn...@gmail.com> writes:

Harry wrote:

>>   sa-learn --spam spammail
>>   Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined)
>>
>> Is this normal output or does it mean just what it appears to, that
>> nothing was done?
>>
>> The file is mbox format, at least 'mutt -f spam' reads it fine.
>>
>> If that output does mean that nothing is happing, can anyone tell me
>> what I might be doing wrong?

Snowybunting wrote:
> I had to use --mbox switch on my machine:
>
> sa-learn --mbox --spam spammail

Hey, thanks... that was the problem.  I didn't see any mention of that
--mbox flag in the examples I found on line.  SA must be expecting
maildir or something and be defaulted that way.

Re: after sa-learn on spam I get '0' messages read?

[snowybunting <sn...@gmail.com>]

I had to use --mbox switch on my machine:

sa-learn --mbox --spam spammail



On 9/13/2013 11:42 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Using spamassassin 3.3.2 on debian linux (testing)
>
> I haven't tried teaching spamassasin spam from ham by hand before but
> looking thru the docs I guess something like:
>
>    sa-learn --spam spammail (Where spammail is mbox style file)
>
> is supposed to be teaching Sa that those messages are spam.
>
> But, the output I see from SA seem to indicate that nothing is really
> happening.
>
>   sa-learn --spam spammail
>   Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (0 message(s) examined)
>
> Is this normal output or does it mean just what it appears to, that
> nothing was done?
>
> The file is mbox format, at least 'mutt -f spam' reads it fine.
>
> If that output does mean that nothing is happing, can anyone tell me
> what I might be doing wrong?