Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 27857
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2003/3/26-27 [Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:27857 Activity:moderate
3/26    In just 30 days of using SpamAssassin, I've noted that it's caught
        160 pieces of spam.  Is that about average, or am I just getting an
        unusually high amount of junk mail?
        \_ since June 2002, on my worst account today I'll pass 20,000 spams
           caught by ifile, or an average of something over 60 per day. -tom
           \_ Ok. I should be thankful with only 5-6/day.
           \_ ifile Q: how do I add to my spam corpus without actually
              keeping a huge file of spam around?
              `ifile.learn.mailbox good $MAIL` starts me off, but is there a
              a way to update that and correct mistakes just by moving a
              message to the right folder?
              \_ http://xtrmntr.org/ORBman/ifile.procmail.html.
                 mutt folder hooks.  -tom
                 \_ I'm the guy who tried mutt and left a bunch of processes
                    using 90% CPU.  Any pine solutions (even if they don't
                    work as well)?
                    \_ do the same thing by hand.  pine resists automation.
                    \_ have two recipes in your .procmailrc:

                        :0: $HOME/.ifile.lock
                        * ^Resent-To:.*myusername\+isspam
                        | ifile.relearn.message inbox spam

                        :0: $HOME/.ifile.lock
                        * ^Resent-To:.*myusername\+isinbox
                        | ifile.relearn.message spam inbox

                       then have two addressbook entries myusername+isspam
                       and myusername+isinbox.  if a message is
                       misdirected, then simply (b)ounce the message to
                       the appropriate address.
                       \_ great idea, thank you.
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Copy all executable scripts in bin/ subfolder into some directory where could be used system wide. Example: # cp bin/* /usr/local/bin/ Setup: ------ Log in as a user which receives the e-mails. Say you wan't to just recognize "good" messages and "spam" messages. So you've got some folders with "good" emails and one folder with "spam" messages. For further information see man procmail, man procmailrc, man procmailex. Now you're done - e-mails should be sorted with the help of ifile. Usage: ------ Sometimes you want to tell ifile that it made a "mistake" and sorted e-mail into bad folder. Say you received spam message but ifile didn't recognize it and sorted it as a good message.