Re: Why won't spamassassin learn?

From: Larry Starr (starrl_at_dragonone.localdomain)
Date: 01/09/04 

Date: 8 Jan 2004 23:57:15 -0600

In article <pan.2004.01.08.23.27.00.295252@email.com>, Joseph wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:07:33 -0800, Joachim Feise wrote:
>
>> Joseph wrote on 1/8/2004 10:57:
>>> I am using the newest spamassassin but I can't get it to learn for some
>>> reason..has anyone got any ideas?
>>>
>>> Here is what happens:
>>>
>>> [root@joestoy /]# sa-learn --spam --dir
>>> /home/joseph/Mail/.SPAM.directory/SPAM-Missed/* Learned from 0 message(s)
>>> (511 message(s) examined).
>>
>> This would indicate that it already has learned from the messages.
>> From the man page:
>> "SpamAssassin remembers which mail messages it's learnt already, and will not
>> re-learn those messages again, unless you use the --forget option."
>> I would guess that at some step in your filtering SA autolearns that these
>> are spam.
>
> Then they shouldn't be going to my inbox...
>
> I get plenty of spam that is filtered correctly, but these go to my inbox.
>
> I move them to my "SPAM-Missed" folder, and ty to sa-learn them, but
> sa-learn refuses to learn from them.
>
> I tried the --forget option, then ran it again, and it still didn't work.

Seems like it should have leaned, after the -forget, option, but,
as previous posters have noted, sa-learn does not "Learn" the same
message twice. The status message at the end, seems to indicate that
it has examined, and recognized all of the messages in the directory.

I should note that sa-learn is only updating the bayesian database,
and does not, necessarily cause the messages to be marked as spam,
you may have other rules scoring negative values that result in the
messaging being passed to your inbox.

You may wish to try "spamassassin -t < message", on some of these messages
and look at the SA report generated.

Hope this helps.

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