How to train spamassassin with gamera

xiglet · Unread post by **xiglet** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:30 am

Hi

I've installed Rh9 with gamera. It's running as the anti-virus/spam gateway for serveral domains. It's working ok, but I have a few qustions about tuning spamassassin:

1. I've notices that some email (maybe 1 out of 5, could be more, could be less) have not been tagged with spamassassin.

2. Too much mail gets the spamassassin score 2.63. As I understand, this is pretty normal for ordinary mail as well (?) (I'm talking about the spamassassin tag in smtp header)

3.- How can i train spamassassin? spamassassin --help gave me information about how to tune with the -r switch. How can I accomplish this? I belive email are being sent directly to the destination MTA (my customers, mostly Exchange) without any copy on the gamera server after it have been scanned.

regards
xiglet

Unread post by **scott** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:20 am

For training, what I did was configure Spamassassin to store its configuration information in MySQL, which runs on my PSA server. Then I have an ugly script that goes through and runs sa-learn on all my users Learn Spam/Learn Ham Maildir folders.

You could also tar up a big batch of spam, and a big batch of ham, transfer it to the PG box, and train it locally to the global bayes db if you're not using mysql