Training SpamAssassin with Ham E-Mail in the Quarantine Folder

From time to time (maybe once or twice a week), I get a legitimate piece of e-mail quarantined in the /var/virusmails folder.
What is the best way to send a file (e.g., "spam-v9TygbyHYnHz.gz") like that through SpamAssassin so it learns that the e-mail is ham and not spam?

An easier solution would be to quarantine
into a mailbox rather than a directory.
That would "only" be about 1,000 times easier than what I'm doing now. It's a great suggestion.
I can't seem to find any instruction concerning how to do this. Can you point me in the direction of some instructions for setting that up?
Thanks in advance.

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CTS wrote:
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OK, I've discovered how to access the library.
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I use this script: it puts a txt in a text frame, check the overflow and find/replace some words with a pdf. Hope this is helpful.
Paolo
/************************FLOW************************************************
* This function looks for Overflows in the story and either resizes the           *
* frame to the size of the margins (if necesary) or adds a new page and     *
* a new frame, which is then linked to the previous frame.esizes the           *
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                var f =currentFrame.geometricBounds[1];
                var g =currentFrame.geometricBounds[2];
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                    var c = currentPage.bounds[2]-myMargins.bottom;
                    var d = currentPage.bounds[3]-myMargins.left;
                else{
                    var myMargins =currentPage.marginPreferences;
                    var a = currentPage.bounds[0]+myMargins.top;
                    var b = currentPage.bounds[1]+myMargins.left;
                    var c = currentPage.bounds[2]-myMargins.bottom;
                    var d = currentPage.bounds[3]-myMargins.right;
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                    currentFrame.geometricBounds = [a,b,c,d];
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                    var b = currentPage.bounds[1]+myMargins.right;
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                    var d = currentPage.bounds[3]-myMargins.left;
                    var newFrame = currentPage.textFrames.add({geometricBounds:[a,b,c,d]});
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                else{
                    var myMargins =currentPage.marginPreferences;
                    var a = currentPage.bounds[0]+myMargins.top;
                    var b = currentPage.bounds[1]+myMargins.left;
                    var c = currentPage.bounds[2]-myMargins.bottom;
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//************************************END FLOW FUNCTION*********************************************
/*******************TextPlacer***************************
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var myPageWidth = myDocument.documentPreferences.pageWidth;
var myPageHeight = myDocument.documentPreferences.pageHeight
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var myX2 = myPage.marginPreferences.left;
var myX1 = myPage.marginPreferences.right;
else{
var myX1 = myPage.marginPreferences.left;
var myX2 = myPage.marginPreferences.right;
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var myY2 = myPageHeight - myPage.marginPreferences.bottom;
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/*******************ImagePlacer***************************
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var grepFind ="@@@.+@@@";
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var myFiguresFolder = "testatine";
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var myPStyle = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Paragraphstyle");
var NextPStyleCS = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Par_Style");
var NextPStyleEN = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Par_Style_en");
var NextPStyleDE = myDocument.paragraphStyles.item("Par_Style_de");
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var myCStyle = myDocument.characterStyles.item("text");
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var myOStyle = "";
var oStyle_1 = myDocument.objectStyles.item("Pictures");
var oStyle_2 = myDocument.objectStyles.item("Pictures");
var oStyle_3 = myDocument.objectStyles.item("Pictures");
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var maxWidth = 467; //Maximum width of an image
var maxHeight = 666; //Maximum Height of an image
var colWidth = 468; //Width of the main columb (340pt) + maximum Tab (128pt)
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var PWidth; //Width of the Picture
var PHeight;//Picture Height
var myTotal;
//---------------------------------ALERTS---------------------------------\\
var notSaved = "Documento non salvato; devi prima salvare il documento";
var noFolder = "No such folder exists; "+myFiguresFolder;
var noImageMessage = "No Images were found";
var finished = " immagini sostituite"
//---------------------------------ALERTS---------------------------------\\
/************************END OF STORY*****************************************
* The object of this bit of programming is to add an empty paragraph break *
* at the end of the story, in order to make the actual script work in the case   *
* that the LAST paragraph were a TABLE                                                              *
var findEnd_of_Story = "\\r(?=\\z)" //GREP for End of Story                        //
app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;                              //
app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;                         //
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var fItems = myDocument.findGrep();                                              //
var myC = fItems.length-1;                                                             //
if (fItems =!0){                                                                              //
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        if (fItems.appliedParagraphStyle = myPStyle){                          //
            cItem = fItems[myC]                                                          //
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myC--;                                                                                           //
while (myC >= 0);                                                                       //
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alert (notSaved);
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                  xtTab = nextPar.leftIndent;
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              cPStyle = "";
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          sFig = ""
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