Nightly MassChecks by Uploading your Corpora
Corpus uploads are not used anymore due to resource and privacy reasons.
How to participate in NightlyMassCheck runs by uploading your email.
If you rsync up your corpus to our server, as described here, it can be mass-checked there. Unfortunately you have to share your mail corpus with whoever might have access to that machine. It's not expected that anyone will ever actually look, but it's there nonetheless. If you are very concerned about privacy, you may be advised to strip out the more private mails before uploading, or mass-check on your own machine instead.
It is possible to mass-check these corpora nightly ; results also at http://bbmass.spamassassin.org:8011/ .
Administrivia: how the corpus is laid out
The filesystem layout of the corpora rsynced up to the server, is like this:
/home/bbmass/uploadedcorpora/WHO/TYPE/FOLDER
"WHO" is your username.
Under that, we have "TYPE", which is either "ham" or "spam".
Under that, "FOLDER", which is whatever the person feels is appropriate. For example, some of us use date-stamped dirs here. It is also possible to use mboxes, as long as they are files and their filename ends in ".mbox".
Note that only files which (a) are directly in the "ham" or "spam" directory, not a subdirectory, and (b) are named ending in ".mbox", will be treated as mboxes. Anything else will be considered a single email message.
How to get your corpus up there
This is done via rsync.
Send an email to private@spamassassin.apache.org requesting an rsync account for uploading corpora.
They'll send you a username and password. You can then sync your files like so:
export RSYNC_PASSWORD=$YOURPASS rsync -vr /path/to/your/files \ rsync://$YOURUSER@rsync.spamassassin.org/mailcorpus_$YOURUSER
It's important that you have 2 dirs in the /path/to/your/files
directory,ham
and spam
. Any files ending in .mbox
inside those dirs will be treated as UNIX mbox-format files; any other files will be treated as individual messages (one message per file).
Privacy
Uploaded corpora are not considered public knowledge. The people with accounts on that machine should treat the uploaded messages responsibly, and respect the uploader's privacy. If you are concerned about the privacy of these messages, you may be advised to remove the more private mails before uploading, or mass-check on your own machine instead.
How we create a new rsync area for someone to upload corpora
Some stuff for PMC people hacking on this...
sudo vi /etc/rsyncd.conf
add something like this to the end, changing "CORPUSUSER" to the username you want to give out:
[mailcorpus_CORPUSUSER] path = /home/bbmass/uploadedcorpora/CORPUSUSER read only = false auth users = CORPUSUSER secrets file = /home/corpus-rsync/secrets incoming chmod = a+r
CORPUSUSER="[username you want to give out]" cd /home/bbmass/uploadedcorpora/ mkdir $CORPUSUSER chmod 1777 $CORPUSUSER #PERMISSIONS CHANGED ON NEW SPAMASSASSIN-VM BOX chown rsync.rsync $CORPUSUSER
Then create a random password string, and add a line to /home/corpus-rsync/secrets
with $CORPUSUSER and that password.
Finally, let the submitter know their new username and password.