Hi Bob, > Hello lists,
You can call me Tony ;) Many thanks for responding to my plea. >> a "normal" install of an app does not apply to the cpanelled version :/ > > Understood. I'm a domain master on three similar machines (three > different domains), all using SA under cpanel's installation. Works > well for me (though I've strengthened SA for myself more than most > others would be able to). Ah, a guru then ;) >> I would like to do the following: > >> 1. Turn auto learn on (unless this is not recommended???). > > In my cpanel installations auto-learn is automatic. Any idea how I can turn this on? It is turned off on my server, and those of others using the same dedicated server provider - and they don't do it themselves, so I assume it is OFF by default in recent versions of CPanel.... >> 2. Allow my clients to run sa-learn if they wish (they do not have ssh >> access, but can run cron jobs), ideallty on a regular automated basis > > I use cron scripts which look for files named newspam.txt and > newham.txt in my domain root directories, and if found, run sa-learn > against and then delete the files. I create these files by FTP upload > from my email client. Works great. Cool. Do you run these for the whole server or just for YOUR domain? > Only requirement is an email client that will output > intelligent/useful files (I use mbox format). ditto. > I have users that use horde for webmail. I've created hamlearn and > spamlearn folders for them, and my cron scripts look to see if those > folders are non-empty. If so, it runs sa-learn against those folders > and then empties them. Sounds good, just the sort of thing I'm after. >> 3. Run sa-learn on a regular, automated basis for the entire server > > That can be a challenge. running it for the entire server, or running it automatically? >> and certainly I haven't noticed a drop-off in spam, which is why I think >> it was for the root account that this was run rather than for the whole >> server. > > I agree -- sa-learn normally runs for whatever user runs it. > sa-learn runs best for individual users and/or individual systems. > While a system-wide bayes is better than none, you won't want to > interfere with those users/domains that are able to do their own bayes > work. Can you tell me how to run it for the entire server? Why is it better to have individual ones for each user - becuause they have different ideas of what constitutes spam? > As an end-user, I can't help you much with the cpanel setup, but I can > help you with the types of things I have managed to do here. Sounds like you're a lot more than an end-user Bob. You are doing a heck of a lot that I would like to be able to do. Apart from the lack of SA/cpanel knowledge, I am a *indows man not a *nix one, so cron jobs/perl scripts/shell scripts are all pretty new to me. How much do you want for a copy of your scripts? ;) many thanks, Tony
