Using the procedure "learnspams"

Content:

1. Introduction
2. Using "learnspams"
3. The ~/.learnspamsrc file

For your convenience I wrote a procedure called learnspams which teach the spamassassin algorithm and empties the two folders.
What you have to do is to fill in those two folders with the appropriate mails (the good one and the bad one).
 

2- Using "learnspams"

1. First time that you use it:
   • Create with your mailtool two subfolders called spams and hams.
   • Enter the appropriate mails in those two folders
   • Create with your mailtool an empty mail folders called template.
   • Optional: create a ~/.learnspamsrc if you want to override the defaults names
2. Call the procedure:
   • If you are using all the default values, just type the command:

     learnspams

   • The first time I would recommend to add the option "-v":

     learnspams -v

   
   This procedure understand the following parameters:

   -h                    print this HELP
   -v                    verbose
   -t file_name          name of the template (empty) mail_file
   -maildir mail_dir     mail_subdirectory in your Home_directory
   -spams file_name      name of the mail_folder with SPAMS mails
   -hams  file_name      name of the mail_folder with 'good' mails
   

   Example:

   sirrah.ee.ethz.ch:ballisti:[ballisti]:104 % learnspams -v
   MAILDIR=mail_folders
   SPAMS=spams
   HAMS=hams
   learning SPAMS from /home/ballisti/mail_folders/spams
   Learned from 40 message(s) (264 message(s) examined).
   Emptying file /home/ballisti/mail_folders/spams 
   learning HAMS from /home/ballisti/mail_folders/hams
   Learned from 19 message(s) (32 message(s) examined).
   Emptying file /home/ballisti/mail_folders/hams 
   End of procedure "learnspams".
   Please continue to put mails into spams and hams 
   

   You can put this procedure call in your cronjob list:
   there is no problem when the files spams and hams are empty.

   Example:

   bigbang:ballisti:[ballisti]:91 % crontab -e
   bigbang:ballisti:[ballisti]:92 % crontab -l
   05 07 * * 1     /usr/local/bin/learnspams -v