Hi all, I receive close to 100 spam mails a day. So I set up spamassassin (2.60-rc2) from source. I receive mail thru fetchmail and filter it thru spamassassin by creating .procmailrc and .forward files as given in SA INSTALL file to receive good mail in /var/spool/mail/srikanth and spam in a "caughtspam" file.
Initially, filtering was good. THen after sometime, 10 to11 spam mails leaked through. I then used training of SA by giving "sa-learn" since I have a 20 MB caughtspam file now with close to 2200 spam mails. The funny thing is , each day, before I receive mail, if i train SA by giving "sa-learn --spam --mbox /home/srikanth/caughtspam" and then if I receive mail using fetchmail, filtering is really good and no spam comes through or only one or two comes thru. But if I retrieve mail thru fetchmail without going thru "sa-learn" first, it is the old story again, 10 or 11 spam comes thru. I checked it more than 5 to 6 times by both methods and the result is consistent. Why? Does SA needs to be trained everytime? Does it forget what it previously learnt? I think not , since it says it learnt only from 7 or10 messages and I have not given any forget options to "sa-learn". Can anybody enlighten ? NS Srikanth ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
