Re: [SLUG] spamassassin vs pine

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 12:17:54 EST


> I put Spamassassin on my machine to deal with the spam issue (which is not
> severe, by "abuse@" standards, but still), and it doesn't seem to be getting
> beter. Correction, the two-week average of "% spams caught" has gone from
> 38% two weeks ago to 44% now. There have been no false positives, for which
> I'm grateful, but I'd put up with a few false positives for a better kill
> rate. I got fed up with it, so I made a spreadsheet to see _how bad_ it
> was. It's at http://24.94.123.65:81/spam.xls . I've fed every missed spam
> to it by "| sa-learn --spam" from pine. What am I doing wrong? Shouldn't
> it be improving?

When the command returns you should see a message saying the number of messages
processed and how many were used. If you get weird numbers, try specifying the
--mbox option to sa-learn.

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