On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 23:46, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> I've been reading up on sa-learn, and your way seems to be much more
> complex than necessary. Why not just save the messages in question (they
> get saved with all their headers) to a file, and then just do:
> 
> sa-learn --[ham|spam] --file message.txt
> 
> If you get enough false positives and negatives then why not move or
> copy as appropriate the messages to a ham folder and a spam folder and
> then set up a daily cron job to run:
> 
> sa-learn --ham --mbox ~/evolution/local/Ham/mbox
> sa-learn --spam --mbox ~/evolution/local/Spam/mbox
> 
> sa-learn will ignore the messages it's already seen, and anyway you
> could delete the contents of each folder everyday after the cron job has
> run.

You make a good point, and demonstrate the strength and flexibility of a
UNIX environment.  Truth be told, I get so few false positives & false
negatives with spamassassin that my cumbersome method has been "good
enough".

Regardless, I stand by my opinion that a generic "pipe message to
command" function in Evolution would be a Good Thing.

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