KMail and spam

[David A' Rebel]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:06:42 -0600
Ron Morse <rmorse32 at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Sunday 23 July 2006 05:14, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen 
> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I've set up KMail with spamassasin to fight spam, but I'm
> > not very happy about it's efficiency. It only flags about
> > 40-50% of the spam as spam. I've configured spamassassin
> > with razor2 and dcc.
> >
> > Is this the best I can hope for or have I done something
> > wrong in configuring spamassassin?
> >
> > Bjarne
> 
> Doesn't Spamassassin have to be "trained?" I use bogofilter 
> now, but back in the day I remember that I periodically had 
> to run SA against accumulated stores of "spam" and "ham," 
> after which its accuracy improved significantly. I'm sorry 
> I can't be more precise, but the information should not be 
> hard to find. 
> 
> RBM
> 

  It certainly works better if you do, you can do it a couple of ways,
kmail now has the learning abilities set in the action bar. Or you can
run sa-learn from a terminal something like sa-learn
--spam /Mail/junk/cur if that is where you put your uncaught spam. Note
the cur is for current not a mailbox name.