Re: lazy man's help to spam assassin

Am 24. Feb, 2004 schwätzte Craig White so:

> I suppose that I could read the mail lists on spam assassin but I'm
> thinking that others have done this so I thought I would toss it out
> here first.
>
> Spam Assassin running as spamd on multi-user mail/web server.
>
> I want to allow individual users the ability to 'easily' categorize spam
> / not-spam and created IMAP account boxes and thinking that I could run
> a script...
>
> !#/bin/sh
> for i in `cat /root/scripts/users`; \
>
> su $i -c /bin/sh "/usr/bin/sa-learn --mbox --spam \
> /home/users/$i/mail/SPAM-learn";
>
> su $i -c /bin/sh "/usr/bin/sa-learn --mbox --ham \
> /home/users/$i/mail/SPAM-not"; \
>
> cat /dev/null > /home/users/$i/mail/SPAM-learn;
> cat /dev/null > /home/users/$i/mail/SPAM-not;
>
> done
>
> So that users spam rules update - perhaps nightly by copying emails
> directly into their SPAM-learn/SPAM-not boxes...does this make sense?

Yes. I do something like this for myself. It's getting to the point where
you might want to run it a few times a day, though :(.

I've been running into problems with spamassassin eating it's database or
something :(. I need to update to a new version and see if that fixes it. It
might also be because I'm on a machine that's woefully underpowered for
spamassassin.

I would suggest using a lock file to copy the mailboxen, before working on
them, though.

">file" should work rather than using "cat /dev/null >file".

What we really need is a MUA that understands 'these are SPAM' folders and
'these are no-SPAM' folders and then copies all non-SPAM into a new-HAM
folder and copies all SPAM to a new-SPAM folder.

I bet it could be done in mutt. But then you'd have to use mutt :(.

evolution anyone? With the virtual folder stuff it might be possible. Then
you'd keep a timestamp on the last time the user was checked and grab a copy
of new mail since the user was last checked.

ciao,

der.hans
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