On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@verizon.net> wrote: > On Monday 20 April 2009, alexus wrote: >>i'm trying to teach my SA whats spam >> >>it's a brand new out of box SA, i have few domains that i dont get >>anything but a spam and on the top seems like from same spamers as >>they "picked" emails that they thought would be good to spam and keep >>on spaming them >> >>so i do sa-learn --spam * >>after a while it saying something like >> >>Learned tokens from 52 message(s) (52 message(s) examined) >> >>yet, when more of some what same email comes in it still can't >>determinate if its spam or not... >> >>am i doing something wrong? or is sa-learn isn't suppose to work as i >>thought it would.. > > You need to have it learn at least 200 messages of both 'ham' and 'spam' > before it has enough data to switch to working mode. So sort them into > separate directories, and have it learn both a clean inbox as ham, and an all > spam directory. When it has learned those, it keep track and will not learn > those particular emails again, so clean the spam box, just delete its > contents. I even use a cleaned up, sorted to separate directories mailing > list as ham just so it knows stuff from that list is generally ham. I had one > list that I never figured out what was spammy about it, and since the corpus > of that list went back several years, I fed the whole thing to SA as ham. > Took it several hours but no more problems with that lists messages now. Now, > the spam that does get through goes into a spam dir, and a cron job learns it, > then deletes it daily. I'm lazy, and repetitive tasks are to be done by a > cron fired script around this camp. :) > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. > -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. > >
how do I change my SA from learning mode to working mode? -- http://alexus.org/
