spammy update
Posted in Geekery on September 7th, 2005Well, SpamAssassin seems to have it’s sights set fairly well right out of the gate, but I have had to teach it a few things. Me being lazy, I developed the following script to automate the process of telling SA to read each of my three inboxes and the Spam folder to catalog the collection.
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#!/bin/bash
# SpamAssassin Teacher
echo "Reading SPAM folder..."
sa-learn --spam --dir /home/your-username-here/Mail/Spam/cur
echo "Reading Inbox1..."
sa-learn --ham --dir /home/your-username-here/Mail/inbox/cur
echo "Reading Inbox2..."
sa-learn --ham --dir /home/your-username-here/Mail/inbox2/cur
echo "Reading Inbox3..."
sa-learn --ham --dir /home/your-username-here/Mail/inbox3/cur
echo "Done!"
exit
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To use the script, save it to your home directory as spammy.sh. You will then need to set it as an executable file with this command:chmod 777 spammy.sh, and call it using ./spammy.sh in a terminal window.
I really love it when I get a chance to do a script, since it’s very close to the programming I learned waaaaay back in high school (DOS-based stuff and Pascal). Unfortunately, I don’t do many repetitive tasks that would benefit from being scripted.
Of course, if I did, I’d end up going whole hog and becomming a programmer again. I don’t need that kind of workaholicism :)
Hollerings