LiveConfig Learn Spam

SpamAssassin learning script for LiveConfig enabled web-hosting systems

SpamAssassin

You are able to enable SpamAssassin when using a LiveConfig installation on your system. SpamAssassin is only running effectively when it gets "trained" with spam message. It will improve its detection algorithm and this will result in a higher detection rate.

To do so you may use the sa-learn command provided by SpamAssassin. To tell SpamAssassin to learn a single message (or even a whole folder) as spam (or as ham = no spam) you may provide a directory or pipe a message

sa-learn --spam /path/to/spam/directory or cat bad_message.eml | sa-learn --spam

To do the same with ham messages you can use the --ham argument instead of --spam.

LiveConfig

LiveConfig stores all messages of its users in /var/mail. The learning script just utilizes the find command to get the absolute paths of all .Spam and .Junk directories of all mail users. Those paths are passed to sa-learn to train SpamAssassin.

Setup

1. Make sure SpamAssassin is fully enabled and working on your system.
2. Place the spamassassin-learn script anywhere on your system (e.g. /usr/bin/adm/spamassassin-learn)
3. Execute the script every day or even every few hours and pipe its output to /dev/null (using > /dev/null 2>&1)
4. Profit.