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Wednesday, November 10, 2004
web-based spamassassin training

I’ve been using spamassassin for quite a while now. It’s a great spam filter, and supports Bayesian training on messages. Actually doing the training is a little annoying, though, as I have to log in to the server, separate out all the messages into a separate file, and then run the command line program sa-learn on that file. That finally got to be too annoying for me. I looked around quickly for some web-based training app, but couldn’t find anything. They may exist, and I may just not have looked hard enough.

Anyway, not having found one quickly, I wrote my own. It’s really simple to install and use. From the README:

SA-TRAIN!

INSTALL:

Untar sa-train.tgz into a password protected web directory. Edit config.php with the appropriate values.

USAGE:

Point your web browser to the location sa-train is installed. Select which messages are spam. Click “train as spam and delete” or “train as spam but save” as desired.

That’s all.

You can download it here.

Note: This will only work if the user the web server runs as has read access to your mail file. To delete, it needs write access as well. This only works on mbox files. There are no plans to expand it to anything else.

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Posted by alan to general at 11:32 pm PT | Link | Comments (1)

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Comment by Chris Halverson
2004-11-11 06:56:51

Have you looked at Maia Mailguard? See Maia. We use it here with great success and you don’t need any issues like having the web server be able to read your email. Email me if you have questions.

 
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