> Jari Fredriksson wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> Some spam is getting past the spamassassin. So I;d like to devise a scheme where I manually place the emails not caught by spamassass in my >>> 'spam-mail' folder. Is there any way to get spamassassin to process the >>> contents of the folder so I those accepted messages are considered spam >>> in the future? >> It depends. If the "spam-mail folder" is a folder in a POP3 client, it is >> not easy to automate it. if the "spam-mail folder" is a folder in a IMAP-server, and the server uses Maildir format under Linux or other Unix, >> it is easy. The mails are plain text files in the server file system, and >> a cron job can easily run sa-learn --spam with that folder. >> If the server is some MS Exchange I have no idea. Maybe the folder could >> be downloaded periodically with fetchmail or such, and fed to sa-learn. Anyway, SpamAssassin itself does not help besides sa-learn, so this needs >> scripting on your part. > > okay how do I script sa-learn to learn the contents of a particular file. > > Cheers, > > Noah
If the user used to call spamc is noah, then this might do it. The last parameter is file name or a folder name, in which case all files in the folder will be learnt. man sa-learn will tell more.. #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/sa-learn -u noah --spam /home/noah/Maildir/spam-mail/cur
