[plug] Q for the spamassassin experts

[Bennett, Phillip]

Bill,

What you need to do is get all these spam messaegs into one place and in
mbox format.  Then use the sa-learn command on them.  From memory, it's
just 'sa-learn --spam --mbox <filename>' and it'll learn that these
messages are spam and should block them in th future.

If this is not the case, you might want to get some new rules, or create
your own.  Have a look on the spamassassin website and google to find
out how.  What I did was look for some very specific text that appeared
in the emails I wanted to block and added a rule to look for that.  Once
found, it rated it as spam.

Hth,
Phil.


PS: Thanks for the script.  I'm looking at it right now. :) 

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of William Kenworthy
Sent: Sunday, 1 January 2006 8:04 AM
To: Plug List
Subject: [plug] Q for the spamassassin experts

Ive noticed that spamassasin has started missing a number of spams -
they seem to be designed to look like a normal email.  For some months I
have been transferring the leakage and likely-spam-found to the "spam"
directory in the account that spamassassin is working from.

For maintenance, should I go on doing this (potentially forever), or
delete the older ones?

The spamassasin account has three directories, bayes|spam|ham - should I
be using the bayes one for anything?

BillK


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