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1. Send an email to private@spamassassin.apache.org requesting an rsync account for nightly mass-checks.
2. Ensure SpamAssassin and its plugins are fully installed.
3. Download the auto-mass-check script (browse repo):

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   git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/auto-mass-check.git

4. Copy auto-mass-check/auto-mass-check.sh to ~/bin/
5. Copy auto-mass-check/auto-mass-check.cf to ~/.auto-mass-check.cf
6. Modify ~/.auto-mass-check.cf to point at your ham and spam folders. Be sure to configure properly for mbox (mbox) or Maildir (dir) folder formats. Leave the RSYNC options unchanged for now, because you will be running auto-mass-check in test mode at first.
7. Optionally set TRUSTED_NETWORKS and INTERNAL_NETWORKS in ~/.auto-mass-check.cf
8. Run auto-mass-check.sh.
   • Look in ~/masscheckwork/nightly_mass_check/ for ham-*.log and spam-*.log files. (Or weekly_mass_check on Saturday.)
   • Are the filenames good? They should be named something like ham-username.log or ham-net-username.log.
   • Read CorpusCleaning and HandClassifiedCorpora for guidelines of how to identify ham in your spam folder, and spam in your ham folder, and which messages you should be simply deleted.
   • If you move/delete messages, do not forget to "Compact Folder" to be sure they are actually gone.
   • Repeat auto-mass-check until you are certain both folders are cleaned.
9. Edit ~/.auto-mass-check.cf and set RSYNC_USERNAME and RSYNC_PASSWORD with values from step 1.
10. Run auto-mass-check.sh, which will upload your results.
11. Ask a more experienced participant (probably the person who recruited you) to check your results on the server. They can see the uploaded log files by running a command like rsync --old-d username@rsync.spamassassin.org::corpus/
12. If your upload looks good, then you're probably ready to automate nightly checks. Configure auto-mass-check to run as a cron job as your non-root user at roughly 7AM UTC.
    

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