On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:04:22 -0800, Chairman of the Bored <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> At 02:00 PM 11/9/2006, you scribbled:
> >On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:46:04 -0800, Chairman of the Bored
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > so i installed the spam assassin plugin last night and tinkered with
> > > it for a few hours.
> > > i had to pull it because it was trashing everything, and i'm not sure why.
> > >
> > > does anyone have this running, and can give me a hint?
> > > thanks :)
> >
> >Have you trained it with ham and spam?
> >
> >klint.
> 
> it caught this message. i have no idea why.
> not sure what ham and spam is, i followed the directions on this page:
> http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa.html

You need a couple of thousand good messages (ham) and a couple of
thousand bad messages (spam).  Then you run sa-learn over them so that
it can work out what's spam and what's ok.


> the problem is that at this moment, it's gotten 500 spam mails trashed,
> *nothing* has passed, and 2 false positives.

If it's untrained then it's got no information to decide if the message
is good or not.


> guess i expected something, somewhere, to tell me why it was being trashed :)

You'll have to look in the batch file.  There should be a redirection of
stdout on the end of the spamassassin call.


> it's not even doing the subject rewrite thing.

I didnt configure mine to do that (i'll try it tonight when I'm at the
machine with it)

klint.

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