Training MS/SA & Mailwatch

[Martin.Hepworth]

Allan

This more of a MW question, so best to ask on that list.

But a pointer is that you need 'store' all messages as an action for spam and non spam, so MW can have access to the message in order to learn them.

As for off-host learning, best option is an Imap folder for spam and ham, then use one of many perl scripts floating about the SA site to pull them into your local bayes db.

Have a lookn the MS wiki also for a section on getting the most out of spamassassin.

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martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Spencer <allan at zandahar.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:18 AM
To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Subject: Training MS/SA & Mailwatch

Firstly please forgive me for being a bit of a newb but am looking at trying to train our MS/SA system to catch some of the spam thats getting through hopefully through the Mailwatch UI .Our MS doesn't accept any local mail and relays off to various Lotus Domino servers so not sure if this has an impact on the training capabilities

Running Centos 4.x MS 4.71, SA 3.2.5, & ClamAV 0.94

The only other SA rules I've added are the KAM ones and I *THINK* I've got fuzzyocr working (which I will probably ditch shortly)
In MW messages that have already been caught as a virus show me the option to learn as spam/ham (even though this is obvious) but no other messages give me this option.

At the moment just need some starting points and directions towards a newb guide and maybe someone to have a glance over config file and  --lint outputs to verify

Cheers
Allan
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