Training SA

[Michael St. Laurent]

Question:  rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/folderdump ?? ;-D

MailScanner <mailto:mailscanner at SMITS.CO.UK> wrote:
> Try this script; we use it to pull the messages from junkmail and
> goodmail folders on the Exchange and feed the messages to sa-learn
> like so:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> SERVER=<fill in your server name / IP here>
> USER=<spam checking user>
> PASS=<password>
>
> GOOD=goodmail
> JUNK=junkmail
>
> SPAM=/tmp/spam
> NOTSPAM=/tmp/notspam
>
> LOGFILE=/var/log/learn.spam.log
> PREFS=/etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
> SALEARN=/usr/bin/sa-learn
>
> /usr/sbin/folderdump --host $SERVER --user $USER --pass $PASS --folder
> Public\ Folders/$JUNK --dir $SPAM
> /usr/sbin/folderdump --host $SERVER --user $USER --pass $PASS --folder
> Public\ Folders/$GOOD --dir $NOTSPAM
>
> date >> $LOGFILE
>
> $SALEARN --prefs-file=$PREFS --spam $SPAM >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
> rm -f $SPAM/*
>
> $SALEARN --prefs-file=$PREFS --ham $NOTSPAM >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
> rm -f $NOTSPAM/*
>
>
> Make sure that the spam checking user has read access to the public
> folders. You may want to restrict its write/delete access to the
> junkmail folder only, otherwise a user may accidentally drag and drop
> a valuable message on goodmail, rather than Ctrl+Drag and drop.
>
> Bart...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael St. Laurent [mailto:mikes at HARTWELLCORP.COM]
> Posted At: 21 February 2004 04:43
> Posted To: MailScanner
> Conversation: Training SA
> Subject: Re: Training SA
>
> Steve Thomas <mailto:lists at STHOMAS.NET> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 07:57:52PM -0800, Michael St. Laurent is
>> rumored to have said:
>>>
>>> I might be able to fix that up... we are stuck with an Exchange
>>> server here for the mail email system.  I could create a folder on
>>> it for people to move spam and non-spam messages into.  What would I
>>> then do to access those folders from the MailScanner server in such
>>> a way that they could be fed into sa-learn?
>>
>> Never worked with exchange, so I can't say. You could probably do a
>> perl script that logs in via pop3 or imap and downloads/deletes the
>> messages from the exchange box. I know there's a bunch of exchange
>> people on this list, so maybe you'll get a more definitive answer on
>> Monday.
>
> Okay, I'll wait to see what others have to say then.
>
> Thanks.  :-D



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Michael St. Laurent
Hartwell Corporation