On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Magnus Anderson wrote: > Hello. > > I have a short question that I want to ask before I start to use it so I > don't mess things up. > > I'm using SpamAssassin's sa-learn program to make my mailserver learn > more spam. But I would like to contribute with them to and also get more > accurate spam scores. > > The thing is that I have a cronjob running the SpamAssassin report > program reporting all mail in a specific Spam mbox. But since I don't > have a remove mail after the report it sends it's most likley It will > send the same mail again the day after (if I or the user in charge of > the specific Spam mbox removes it before). > > Would this make my reports good for the community or just vorse since I > would report one mail more than one time ?
It won't hurt. Chances are that, unless you've built up a highly trusted profile, the servers won't do much with the repeats, anyhow. However, FWIW, I do something similar. Several times a day, after sifting through my spambox to make sure everything is actually spam, I run my sa-learn via a script which runs the learn, then does a: "cat spambox >> razor-report-box" And then zero's out the spambox. The zeroing out (either "rm spambox" or "cat /dev/null > spambox") ensures that I don't repeatedly try to learn exactly the same messages, over and over. This way, I know that everything in the razor-report-box is spam that I want to report. Then, nightly, I have a script cron'd that does a: "razor-report < razor-report-box" And then zeros out the razor-report-box. The zeroing out ensures that I don't keep trying to report the same exact messages, over and over. Hope this helps. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a message of: subscribe ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users
