[Spambayes] New user, issues with command line use

[Gregory Gulik]

Tony Meyer wrote:
> There are many ways to train SpamBayes - it's really a case of picking the
> one that suits you best.  For example:
> 
>   * You can use sb_mboxtrain to train from a mbox or MH mailbox.
> 
>   * You can use sb_filter (-g or -s) to train a single message.

I've been experimenting with this method but I was puzzled why the 
.hammiedb was not being updated.  Then I realized that since I was 
having it run through an E-mail alias the sb_filter program was being 
run as user "mail" and sure enough the ~mail/.hammiedb file was being 
updated each time, not exactly the effect I was going for.

I tried to run it with -d ~user/.hammiedb but that didn't seem to work 
either.

>   * You can use sb_server as a SMTP proxy (without the POP3 proxy, if you
> like) and train via email forwarding.

Right, I'd like to be able to forward messages but for a variety of 
reasons (mostly afraid of breaking a variety of other goofy special 
E-mail handling I have) I don't want to put a proxy in front of my real 
E-mail server.

> The latter is similar to what you describe, I believe.  However, it works
> best when used in conjunction with the POP3 proxy so that it actually trains
> from the stored copy of the message in the cache.  If you use it without
> that, then you need to be sure that you are forwarding the message exactly
> as it arrived, and not in a forwarded format that most mailers will produce
> (ideally this also means that the To: header should be as when arrived, and
> only the SMTP FROM should be spambayes-spam at localhost or whatever you set
> the address to).
> 
> Those are the most common ways, but I've probably missed something.  If none
> of these suit, please post a message describing what would, and we can see
> if we can come up with a way to do what you're after.

Ah, I see.  The problem is that my users will be forwarding the 
messages.  Ugh.  We also use IMAP here exclusively so the POP3 proxy 
won't help me anyway.


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