RE: sa-learning hidden IMAP message?

[Chris]

Paul:   I’m not one of the experts, actually a newbie; however, I also use IMAP boxes to collect Ham and spam for learning.  I have not noticed a problem with those dummy first messages.  But, two thoughts: IF it were learned as spam, it really wouldn’t matter, since you don’t want them delivered anyway. And, if you are concerned about it, you can use either the  --forget Forget a given message previously learnt. [learned]   Option to un-learn it.   On your second question, as I understand it, sa-learn, when used in conjunction with the  report_safe { 0 | 1 | 2 } (default: 1) option, is smart enough to learn the original message and not the service e-mail to which it was attached.    I have also found that a lot of what I learned about sa-learn is actually contained in other sections of the documentation, so you may find that wider reading is necessary to find all the information.  While I would call SA the best thing since sliced bread, its documentation is IMHO it’s weakest link.  Perhaps because it’s the most boring to write?   If I’m wrong on either of your points, I’m sure someone will let us know and we’ll both learn.   /s/ John     -----Original Message----- From: Paul Fielding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 2:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sa-learning hidden IMAP message?   I'm currently running spamassassin on my mailserver where my users primarily use IMAP to connect. I want to set up two folders for each user, "spam_to_learn" and "ham_to_learn", so that when they get uncaught spam or caught ham, they can just move the message to the appropriate folder, and once per day my script will run to push the mbox file through sa-learn.   There's two things I'm concerned about:   1. the "hidden" imap message that always sits at the start of the mbox file.  Based on my initial tests, it looks like that hidden message gets processed by sa-learn, which tells me token info about my mailserver etc. are getting inadvertently marked as spamy tokens.  Is the the case, or should I be worried about it?  If this is the case then I can write a routine to flush out the hidden message, but why bother if i don't need to...   2. Ham that got marked as spam.  Since spam messages get altered so that the spammy message becomes an attachment to the spam info, when I get a ham that got caught as spam, I suspect that I need to move the "original" message to my ham folder, not the "altered" message?  ie.  If I move the altered message to the ham folder, the message will contain all of the spam info and the actual message will still be an attachement.  the alternative is that they need to open the attachment to see the original ham message and then move THAT message into the ham folder.  ???   thoughts?   regards,   Paul   ------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] get rid of the car to email me.