OT Trying to setup a inbox for autolearning

[Billy A. Pumphrey]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Billy A. Pumphrey
> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:51 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: OT Trying to setup a inbox for autolearning
> 
> Hello everyone!
> 
> I am continuing to try to setup this:
> For my exchange users to be able to put spam in a folder and have the
> MailScanner machine learn it in the bayes database.  I have gotten a
> distance so far but I am stuck.
> 
> Here is what I have so far.  These scripts are ran as the user spam in
> the cronjob.
> 
> Fetch command to get the exchange messages:
> .fetchmailrc file =
> Poll servername proto imap user spam pass ***
> 
> Script file:
> (retrieves exchange spam box email successfully into the spam (linux
> user named spam) inbox on the MailScanner machine
> 
> Fetchmail --folder Spam -all
> 
> (for bayes learning)
> Sa-learn --spam -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --mbox
> /var/spool/mail/spam
> 
	edited
Sa-learn --sync	(I forgot to put this in)
	End edit
> 
> So.....The steps of the script should be =
> 1. Pull mail from exchange and into the user name spam on the linux
> machine mailbox = SUCCESSFUL
> 
> 2. Emptying out the spam inbox after a learning takes place -NOT
> SUCCESSFUL- I don't know how
> 
> 3. Bayes learning, seems to be SUCCESSFUL
> 
> So what I cannot figure out is how do I clear the spam in box from the
> script?  Pine doesn't seem to have a straight command to do it, and
> neither does mail.
> 
> I thought about changing the permissions so that the spam user can
> delete the /var/spool/mail/spam/ file, but that doesn't seem like a
good
> idea.
> 
> Does anyone see anything wrong with doing it like I am doing it?  (as
> far as the scripts, which are small)
> 
> Billy Pumphrey
> IT Manager
> Wooden & McLaughlin
> 

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