Re: [SAtalk] Using sa-learn in a site-wide configuration

2003-12-10 Thread William Stearns
Good afternoon, Stephen, On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Stephen Westrip wrote: > I am trying to set up sa-learn in a site-wide configuration. I have a Red > Hat 9 server, SpamAssassin 2.61 and MIMEDefanf 2.39. I have got SA to work > fine and our spam has dropped considerably, but I would also like to use

RE: [SAtalk] Using sa-learn in a site-wide configuration

2003-12-10 Thread Stephen Westrip
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Kettler Sent: 10 December 2003 18:15 To: Stephen Westrip; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Using sa-learn in a site-wide configuration At 12:04 PM 12/10/2003, Stephen Westrip wrote: >What exactly do I need to do to make this work? I have read l

Re: [SAtalk] Using sa-learn in a site-wide configuration

2003-12-10 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:04 PM 12/10/2003, Stephen Westrip wrote: What exactly do I need to do to make this work? I have read lots about adding 'bayes_auto_learn 1' and other bits and pieces to put in the cf file but whatever I try the Bayes DB never gets added to. did you install DB_File? if not, bayes won't go.

[SAtalk] Using sa-learn in a site-wide configuration

2003-12-10 Thread Stephen Westrip
Dear All, I am trying to set up sa-learn in a site-wide configuration. I have a Red Hat 9 server, SpamAssassin 2.61 and MIMEDefanf 2.39. I have got SA to work fine and our spam has dropped considerably, but I would also like to use sa-learn. What exactly do I need to do to make this work? I have

Re: [SAtalk] using sa-learn...

2003-10-10 Thread Jeff Lasman
On Friday 10 October 2003 09:55, Terry Shows wrote: > I am relatively new to the SAtalk list, so forgive this "stupid" > question: > > Just what is HAM? Ham is "real meat"; the stuff you want. As opposed to spam, which is "phony meat"; the stuff you don't want. Disclaimer: None of this has anyt

RE: [SAtalk] using sa-learn...

2003-10-10 Thread Terry Shows
e: [SAtalk] using sa-learn... Jeff Lasman wrote: > > I'm still not sure if I should run through "ham" as well as "spam" or > not. Is there a specific answer for this? > > Thanks. > > Jeff Hi Jeff, Bayes won't kick in until it has >20

Re: [SAtalk] using sa-learn...

2003-10-10 Thread Scott Blomquist
Jeff Lasman wrote: > > I'm still not sure if I should run through "ham" as well as "spam" or > not. Is there a specific answer for this? > > Thanks. > > Jeff Hi Jeff, Bayes won't kick in until it has >200 ham/spam in the database. You should sa-learn --ham against as wide a range of your normal

Re: [SAtalk] using sa-learn...

2003-10-10 Thread Kai Risku
> I'm still not sure if I should run through "ham" as well as "spam" or > not. Is there a specific answer for this? Yes you should run ham as well, because the Bayes algorithm needs to compare againt both "spammy" and "hammy" words to determine how to classify new mail. You cannot train it with

Re: [SAtalk] using sa-learn...

2003-10-10 Thread Petre Bandac
I did install SA-2.60 and I can't locate sa-learn, except for a file sa-learn.raw in the sources directory? what did I do wrong ? thanks, petre On Friday 10 October 2003 17:56 Anno Domini, Jeff Lasman wrote using one of his keyboards: > On Friday 10 October 2003 07:32, Martin Schroeder wrote:

Re: [SAtalk] using sa-learn...

2003-10-10 Thread Jeff Lasman
On Friday 10 October 2003 07:32, Martin Schroeder wrote: > On 2003-10-10 07:14:56 -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote: > > And one more thing... though I don't see it mentioned, I'm > > presuming from the sa-learn manpage that I don't have to remove the > > already existing SpamAssassin headers from either t

Re: [SAtalk] using sa-learn...

2003-10-10 Thread Patrick Morris
Jeff Lasman wrote: If I should, then I'll probably uses messages sent to this list, as I know there's no spam hidden in them; I can't guarantee that about any of my other folders. Is that a reasonable assumption? Should I try to put through the same number of messages? Or doesn't it matter?

Re: [SAtalk] using sa-learn...

2003-10-10 Thread Martin Schroeder
On 2003-10-10 07:14:56 -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote: > And one more thing... though I don't see it mentioned, I'm presuming > from the sa-learn manpage that I don't have to remove the already > existing SpamAssassin headers from either the spam or the ham; that > sa-learn will ignore them. Is that

[SAtalk] using sa-learn...

2003-10-10 Thread Jeff Lasman
I'm very new to SpamAssassin. I've read 'man sa-learn' but I have a few questions about it... I've been running it for a few days now and I have a folder I call 'spamuncaught', every email put into it by hand, that contains 210 messages. If I run these through sa-learn as spam, won't I be mar

Re: [SAtalk] Using sa-learn for sitewide databases.

2003-08-21 Thread Hannu Liljemark
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:34:00AM +0300, Jefferson Cowart wrote: > Reading the documentation for sa-learn I don't see how to tell > it to use the site-wide databases in stead of the per-user db. > How do I use site-wide bayes db? If you run SpamAssassin as spamd user on the system, su to spamd u

[SAtalk] Using sa-learn for sitewide databases.

2003-08-20 Thread Jefferson Cowart
Reading the documentation for sa-learn I don't see how to tell it to use the site-wide databases in stead of the per-user db. How do I use site-wide bayes db? Thanks Jefferson Cowart [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is

Re: [SAtalk] Using sa-learn with Outlook Express .dbx files

2003-06-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William Turrell wrote on Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:18:35 +0100: > Is there a way I can make sa-learn read .dbx files, or a batch program I can > use to convert a .dbx file into plain text messages? > There's something called dbxtract, should be available from here: http://www.oehelp.com/ I don't know

RE: [SAtalk] Using sa-learn with Outlook Express .dbx files

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Meunier
http://mbx2mbox.sourceforge.net/ > > -Original Message- > From: William Turrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 5:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [] > > Is there a way I can make sa-learn read .dbx files, or a > batch program I can use to convert a .dbx file

[SAtalk] Using sa-learn with Outlook Express .dbx files

2003-06-10 Thread William Turrell
I am running Outlook Express 6 on Windows XP, with SAProxy 1.2.0 (which uses Spamassassin 2.55). I have have two spam folders: - "Spam" - everything identified by Spam Assassin - "Spam to learn" - false negatives I want to pass through sa-learn The problem is Outlook Express stores each folder as

Re: [SAtalk] using sa-learn with spamc

2003-05-30 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:34:50PM -0700, Dale Harris wrote: > So I have spamassassin 2.55 installed. However, it doesn't look like > spamc is passing any information on to sa-learn. I do temporary store spamc doesn't do learning. spamd can autolearn, but that's it. > spamassassin -d | sa-lear

[SAtalk] using sa-learn with spamc

2003-05-30 Thread Dale Harris
So I have spamassassin 2.55 installed. However, it doesn't look like spamc is passing any information on to sa-learn. I do temporary store the spam in it's own folder... so it is it valid to pipe messages to: spamassassin -d | sa-learn --spam --single Is what I want to do to populate my Bayesi