You're welcome. I'm just glad I could help for once instead of being helped. One additional note... To get over the 200 message threshold, you might try running sa-learn on the messages in the spam folder. I'm guessing you have procmail putting messages marked as spam into a spam folder. Make sure they really are all spam and then feed those messages to sa-learn. Messages marked as spam won't be used by the auto learn feature unless their spam score is really high in the first place. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:33 PM Subject: Re: ot, spamassassin question > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ok, I think I figured it out, thanks John for reminding me of > sa-learn's --dump flag. It's a combination of 2 problems. The first > problem is that yes, I really am a moron. When I was running the > spam/ham learning script out of /etc/cron.daily, I was searching > through my mom's saved ham, and spam. However, I forgot to add the > - --dbpath option to sa-learn when calling it in the script. The result > is that I happen to have a /root/.spamassassin directory now, with the > files bayes_seen bayes_toks in it. I've had a look at the sa-learn > man page, but don't see a way to merge that data with the data in my > mom's .spamassassin directory, that was collected through > autolearning. I can backup the data from /root/.spamassassin/*, but I > don't see a way to append it to the existing data in my mom's > directory. If someone knows of a way to do that, without destroying > the data already there, please let me know. > > The second problem is that my mom's database contains less than 200 > messages of either ham, or spam. When I said she's had more than a > couple thousand messages come through, I really did think that. So, > I'm either wrong on that figure, and that many didn't come in, or not > enough of them were autolearned from. If I were to merge somehow the 2 > sets of data, she still wouldn't have 200 of either one, but she'd be > a lot closer there as far as ham is concerned. > > BTW John, thanks for that small perl script. Yes, the bayse plugin is > installed, or at least I assume it is, since I just got the shell > prompt back after running it. Thanks a lot again John for your help in > troubleshooting this, I really appreciate it. > > Greg > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:33:05PM -0600, John G. Heim wrote: >> Well, I'm not sure about the bayesian plugin module but I know >> spamassassin checks for some modules before trying to load them and if >> they aren't available the features they are used for just don't work. So >> I suppose it's possible that spamassassin would just go on merrily >> checking messages even if the bayesian plugin is missing. >> >> Man, now you're really testing my memory. There is a way to run the >> spamassassin service in the foreground so you can see its output. It >> displays a list of perl modules it looked for and whether it found them. >> I think if you just say, 'man spamassassin' you can find that. >> >> But otherwise you can also check if the module is there in the perl >> interpreter itself. Just type 'perl' at the command line and then 'Use >> Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Bayes ;' Or you could write a quick script to >> do it: >> >> #!/usr/bin/perl >> use Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Bayes; >> >> If the above 2 line script works, then the plugin is installed. If you >> installed spamassassin via a package manager, I would think all necessary >> perl modules would be installed as dependencies. It doesn't seem likely >> to me that the plugin would be missing. > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAktXoLsACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyCKnwCdEcp39RE/vo8KI0/Kfa642OFA > WRMAn2Cqz7lx4Tt7Ikg5JA5SL6nEck5a > =iLIm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
