Re: problems with spamprobe

The hash format uses mmap() which does not seem to update the
timestamp of the file on Linux.  Not sure why.  To be certain that
nothing changed in the file you would need to md5sum it before and
after running the training command.

> I've collected a bunch of spam and a bunch of non-spam and tried to
> teach spamprobe by doing:
>
> spamprobe good /my/non-spam/maildir/
> spamprobe spam /my/spam/maildir/

Is maildir in your example a directory name?  Is it really a maildir
directory (i.e. with .cur and .new subdirectories)?

Try running with -v and see if spamprobe prints information about the
emails it is processing.  If it doesn't then it's not finding any
email to learn from.

If maildir in your example is not actually a maildir type directory
structure but rather just a directory containing mbox files then you
should use a wildcard to have the filenames appear on the command line:

  spamprobe good /my/non-spam/maildir/*

In any case it's generally better to use auto-train or auto-learn for
initial training rather than separate runs of spam and good.

spamprobe auto-train -v GOOD /non-spam/maildir/ SPAM /spam/maildir/

All the best,
++Brian

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