Setting Up Additional User with SA

[Rich Shepard <rs...@appl-ecosys.com>]

   I've read the FAQ and Wiki without seeing an answer to my question. The
answer may very well be in a document I've not examined; if it is, please
point me to it. Here's the situation:

   SpamAssassin-3.2.5 is installed here and works well for me with our
postfix MTA. We have two users here: me and my wife. I read mail on the
server/workstation using alpine and she reads it on her laptop using
seamonkey. When spam gets through to my inbox I save it in 'spam-uncaught'
and once a week run 'sa-learn' with those messages as '--spam.' Works well
for me.

   My question is what I need to do to set up the equivalent abilities on my
wife's laptop (running xubuntu-9.10). Do I need to install SA on her
machine, too, or is there a way to filter her mail through the server's
installation?

   Pointers, guidance, and suggestions are needed.

TIA,

Rich

Re: Setting Up Additional User with SA

[Bowie Bailey <Bo...@BUC.com>]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>   We use POP3 here (qpopper, in fact).
>
>   If I correctly understand your suggestion, I add a subdirectory to
> her ~/
> called, like mine 'spam-uncaught'. She saves spam messages there, then
> cron
> will scp that file to the server where I can run sa-learn on them (or
> have
> cron do that, too).

Exactly.

>   That'll work.
>
> Many thanks,

Glad to help.

-- 
Bowie

Re: Setting Up Additional User with SA

[Rich Shepard <rs...@appl-ecosys.com>]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote:

> That depends on how she is getting the mail.  If she is using IMAP, then
> you can just set up a folder and it will work just like yours does since
> everything remains on the server with IMAP.  If she is using POP3, then
> you'll have to get more creative.  I would be tempted to create a folder
> for her to use and then add a script to cron to copy the emails over to
> the server on a regular basis so they can be learned.

Bowie,

   We use POP3 here (qpopper, in fact).

   If I correctly understand your suggestion, I add a subdirectory to her ~/
called, like mine 'spam-uncaught'. She saves spam messages there, then cron
will scp that file to the server where I can run sa-learn on them (or have
cron do that, too).

   That'll work.

Many thanks,

Rich

Re: Setting Up Additional User with SA

[Bowie Bailey <Bo...@BUC.com>]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>   I've read the FAQ and Wiki without seeing an answer to my question. The
> answer may very well be in a document I've not examined; if it is, please
> point me to it. Here's the situation:
>
>   SpamAssassin-3.2.5 is installed here and works well for me with our
> postfix MTA. We have two users here: me and my wife. I read mail on the
> server/workstation using alpine and she reads it on her laptop using
> seamonkey. When spam gets through to my inbox I save it in
> 'spam-uncaught'
> and once a week run 'sa-learn' with those messages as '--spam.' Works
> well
> for me.
>
>   My question is what I need to do to set up the equivalent abilities
> on my
> wife's laptop (running xubuntu-9.10). Do I need to install SA on her
> machine, too, or is there a way to filter her mail through the server's
> installation?

That depends on how she is getting the mail.  If she is using IMAP, then
you can just set up a folder and it will work just like yours does since
everything remains on the server with IMAP.  If she is using POP3, then
you'll have to get more creative.  I would be tempted to create a folder
for her to use and then add a script to cron to copy the emails over to
the server on a regular basis so they can be learned.

-- 
Bowie