[ILUG] sa-learn

[Darragh Bailey]

Quoting Kenn Humborg <kenn at bluetree.ie>:

> > sa-learn just took about 10mins of cpu time to process a 30Mb/1000
> > message mbox file of ham.
> >
> > Is this normal or am I doing it wrong?
>
> Did you use sa-learn --mbox?  If you forget the --mbox, sa-learn
> will parse it as one very large message.
>
> Later,
> Kenn

It sounds to me as though there is a load of attachments with the mail. I have 
about 1000 ham and spam messages in mboxes totaling sizes of 6.8MB and 8MB
respectively.

Perhaps you might want to consider deleting some of the non text attachments
from the mail. As the size of the mbox sounds just a little large for 1000
mails.

I'm using mbox format as well and the time taken to perform
sa-learn --spam --no-rebuild --mbox ~/mail/spam/spam && sa-learn --ham
--no-rebuild --mbox ~/mail/spam/ham && sa-learn --rebuild

is about 1 minute.
--
Darragh

"Nothing's foolproof to a sufficently talented fool"