I've been too lazy to train SpamAssassin's Bayesian classifier with spams that didn't get marked as spam. After messing with things for a bit instead of doing some real work (like laundry or something; have you ever noticed how much more productive you are when you can put off doing other things?), this is the way I set things up. This maybe helpful to somebody, it's probably going to be helpful to me when I forget how I did it.
Firstly I created a folder called SPAM in Apple Mail. This is where I drag any spams I want to train SpamAssassin with.
Then I spent a while being annoyed at SA for not doing what I wanted it to do. See my mail doesn't go to me, it goes to another user which can't log in. There isn't an obvious way to tell sa-learn that you want it to work for another user. To get around this I set bayes_path to an absolute path in that user's ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs.
Then I wrote this little shell script:
#!/bin/sh mbox=/Users/gavin/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/SPAM.mbox/mbox user= host= sa_user= rsync -zv -e ssh $mbox $user@$host:/home/$sa_user/tmp ssh $user@$host sa-learn \ -p /home/$sa_user/.spamassassin/user_prefs \ --showdots --mbox --spam /home/$sa_user/tmp/mbox
This seems neater than setting up a mailbox to receive spams because I don't have to worry that any other headers have sneaked in there.
