sa-learn

[John Dangler]

On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 14:45 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 03/31/2007 07:45 AM, John Dangler wrote:
> >  NoOp wrote:
> 
> >> 
> >> BTW: do you have the catch-all turned on for your email address? If so,
> >> turn it off & I'm sure that you'll stop receiving so many.
> > Right!  I selected one of the junk messages, and the 'not junk' did
> > light... I emptied junk and trash, and restarted Evo to see what happens
> > when everything there is clean.
> > 
> > Since I don't see anywhere within account preferences or mail
> > preferences to set catch-all, I'm guessing I don't have this set (or
> > don't understand where to find it)...
> 
> I'll assume that you are using atlantic.net. AN have catch-all enabled
> by default:
> 
> http://hostingleader.com/Shared-Hosting/Shared-Hosting-Plans/
>  http://hostingleader.com/popup/catchall.htm
> <quote>
> Catch-all Default Mailbox
> 
> This feature allows you to receive e-mails that are sent to an e-mail
> address that does not currently exist at your domain.
> 
> Example: A customer sends you an e-mail to an address you have not
> created such as info at yourdomain.com, and instead of the message bouncing
> back to the user because the e-mail address does not exist, the email
> will be delivered to a vaild email addresss that you have configured to
> be your Catch-all mailbox.
> </quote>
> 
> You need to call AN or whoever admins your mail and have them turn
> catch-all off. That is why you are getting so many spams.
I'm taking care of this right away!  Thanks.
> 
> > 
> > I had a rule that I found on one of the many pages I was reading that
> > pipes every email to the spamassassin command, and if the return is not
> > 0, to mark it read and move it to a different folder that I had set up.
> > I'm guessing I no longer need this rule (it didn't ever move any
> > messages to that folder anyway).  
> > 
> > On a more general note of catching spam, is it even necessary to have
> > rules written in Evo, if I :
> > a) Setup a folder within my mbox to move messages that I want marked as
> > spam, but have not been caught yet by SA
> > b) setup a cron job to run sa-learn --spam on that folder, say, once
> > every hour?
> 
> On the Evo w/SA that I set up for testing I have no rules or pipes, no
> added folder - only Junk; only the default SA, Bogo unchecked, SA
> checked, and remote checked. Nothing else and it's filtering just fine
> so far.
I removed all of the rules, and it sems to be running with sa-learn
alone just fine now.

I set up a cron job by adding an entry to crontab like this:
60 *    * * *   root    sa-learn --spam
--mbox /home/gymsmoke/.evolution/mail/local/Possible_Spam

I'm not sure if its running or not, because this morning I had 458 new
messages, and over 300 were spam... Is there a way to check the output
of this to see if it _is_ in fact running properly?  (it should be
running every 60 minutes...)


> 
> Gary
> 
> 
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