Re: SPAM & HAM Reporting Suggestions

Thanks. That did the trick. Now it shows a date and time for each file that shows they are actually learning from the script. Now I just get to wait and see if I set crontab up correctly.

Dan Tappin wrote:

ahhh...

The .spamassassin directory is in your home directory:

/Users/yourusername/.spamassassin

Try:

cd (this will return you to your home directory)

ls .spamassassin

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Strickland [mailto:jims@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:25 AM
To: post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: SPAM & HAM Reporting Suggestions

When I try just 'pwd' I get the following response

/private/var/spool/mailbox/434/spamassassin

When I try 'ls -al' I get the following response:

total 8
drwxrwx--- 9 mta mail 306 Nov 21 11:18 .
drwxrwx--- 3 mta mail 102 Nov 20 14:36 ..
-rw-rw---- 1 mta mail   18 Nov 21 11:18 ..mailboxlist
drwx------ 6 mta mail 204 Dec 3 09:29 Deleted Items
drwx------ 4 mta mail 136 Nov 20 15:45 Drafts
drwx------ 4 mta mail 136 Dec 4 10:42 Goodmail
drwx------ 4 mta mail 136 Nov 24 14:52 Sent Items
drwxrwx--- 6 mta mail 204 Dec 3 17:22 in
drwx------ 4 mta mail 136 Dec 4 10:42 junkmail

Dan Tappin wrote:

Hmmm...

ls ..spamassassin/ is simply the command to list the contents of the ..spamassassin directory.

Try just 'pwd' and 'ls -al' and post what you get.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Strickland [mailto:jims@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 9:56 AM
To: post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: SPAM & HAM Reporting Suggestions

OK. I created the script following your example. I edited the crontab file following your example. I guess I will see later if I have the crontab set correctly. I manually ran the script. It claimed it learned from 3 files. That is good. Usually, when I run sa-learn manually, I follow it by the following command: ls -alt ..spamassassin/. When I ran this command, I received a set of statistics about tokens and other things that I never completely understood, but at least they made me feel like sa-learn was learning. Now, when I run the command, I get the following response:

ls: .spamassassin/: No such file or directory

My guess is that this is occuring because of the following commands in my script

rm -rf /var/spool/mailbox/434/spamassassin/junkmail/*
rm -rf /var/spool/mailbox/434/spamassassin/goodmail/*

Is this a bad thing? If so, should I change the * to *@* like is shown in the learning line?

Dan Tappin wrote:

I don't think it matters. I use pico because it is the only one I can ever remember how to use (i.e. I hate vi :^).

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Strickland [mailto:jims@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 9:28 AM
To: post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: SPAM & HAM Reporting Suggestions

Is the script I run just created in a regular editor like emacs or do I use something else?

Dan Tappin wrote:

It's pretty easy:

Edit your crontab file...

sudo pico /etc/crontab

Now the crontab file is set up as follows:

#minute hour    mday    month   wday    who     command

0       3       *       *       *       root    sh /Users/tappind/Scripts/sa-learn.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

You can specify the days, months, weekdays, hours and seconds your script will run. The example I have is:

Run  "sh /Users/tappind/Scripts/sa-learn.sh > /dev/null 2>&1" as the root user at 3:00 each day. The *'s are like wild cards.

The "> /dev/null 2>&1" part just suppresses the output of the script.

You can place your script where ever you like. You just need to change the path accordingly for your own crontab file.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Strickland [mailto:jims@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 9:44 AM
To: post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: SPAM & HAM Reporting Suggestions

I am still quite new to the Unix side of OS X. I know what cron is for but, how do I set it up to run this script at a certain time each day? The way SpamAssassin was installed I have to run the script as root. How do I get cron to automatically run the script as root? Any help would be appreciated.

Dan Tappin wrote:

As a follow-up here is the handy spam / ham processing script that I created: ----------------------------------------------- echo "Processing SPAM..." sa-learn --spam --showdots --file /var/spool/mailbox/177/sa_learn/spam/*@* echo "Deleting processed SPAM..." rm -rf /var/spool/mailbox/177/sa_learn/spam/* echo "Cleaning up Mailbox..." touch /var/spool/mailbox/177/sa_learn/spam/__lock__ touch /var/spool/mailbox/177/sa_learn/spam/__cache__ chown mta:mail /var/spool/mailbox/177/sa_learn/spam/* chmod 600 /var/spool/mailbox/177/sa_learn/spam/* echo "Processing HAM..." sa-learn --spam --showdots --file /var/spool/mailbox/177/sa_learn/ham/*@* echo "Deleting processed HAM..." rm -rf /var/spool/mailbox/177/sa_learn/ham/* echo "Cleaning up Mailbox..." touch /var/spool/mailbox/177/sa_learn/ham/__lock__ touch /var/spool/mailbox/177/sa_learn/ham/__cache__ chown mta:mail /var/spool/mailbox/177/sa_learn/ham/* chmod 600 /var/spool/mailbox/177/sa_learn/ham/* ------------------------------------- I created a sa-learn account in PO and a IMAP account in my e-mail client. I just drag and drop my spam and ham to the appropriate folders and I have cron running this script every night. The script does the following: - runs sa-learn - deletes the processed message(s) - recreates the cache and lock files with the proper permissions You will need to check the appropriate mailbox number on your system when you create your learning account. Any tweaks or suggestions are welcomed.

-----Original Message----- From: Dan Tappin [mailto:dan.tappin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 7:44 AM To:post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: RE: SPAM & HAM Reporting Suggestions That's a great idea! That is way easier than how I was thinking about it. Thanks a million, Dan

-----Original Message----- From: Jim Strickland [mailto:jims@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:16 PM To:post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: Re: SPAM & HAM Reporting Suggestions What I did was create a SpamAssassin IMAP account. Within that account I used one of my email client machines to create two folders, one for junkmail, and one for goodmail. I give each client machine access to those two folders. Each person in my company can now move junkmail to the "junkmail" folder and copy good mail to the "goodmail" folder. I can then run sa-learn on those two folders. So far everything seems to be working great. Dan Tappin wrote:

I was wondering if any one has any automation tips for reporting spam & ham for SA. Up until now I was using the Spamcop mail bundle for Apple's Mail App:http://www.subsume.com/static/WebObjects/SubsumeSite/SubsumeSite/Tech/Software/SpamCop.htmlThe issue is that this plug-in sends all the selected messages a one big message with each spam as an attachment. This

works great

for Spamcop but sa-learn expects individual messages. Can anyone suggest an easy way to bulk-redirect messages to either a spam or ham reporting address using Apple's Mail app? Dan -- Dan Tappin, P. Eng. Senior Engineer O'Rourke Engineering Ltd.<http://www.orourke.ca/>(403) 298-9639 --------- Tenon Intersystems' Post.Office Mailing List To unsubscribe: sendmailto:post_office-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxwith the body only containing: unsubscribe Find the searchable mailing list archives at:http://postoffice.computeroil.com/

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