(Unrelated to the subject, but I'm kind of curious what others do
with the spam markings ...)

I wrote:
> I've recently had the same problem, missing a number of important
> emails.

To which Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responded:
> Of course, there is another variable which wasn't mentioned.  Since
> SA doesn't delete mail, but only marks it ... how did the "number of
> important emails" get missed?

I'm probably a lot better at identifying spam than spamassassin, so if
I look at each email anyway (or even at just the sender and subject) then
there'd be little point in marking spam. So instead I automatically sort in
different folders based on the spamassassin result. To be precise, if the
spam score is from 5.0 to 8.9 I put it in 'junk', if higher I put it in 'bad'.
Unless I know someone sent me mail I didn't see, I only rarely glance through
the junk folder, to see if I recognize any senders. So indeed the important
emails were not lost, but I saw their time-sensitive content too late.

Incidentally, I use slocal (part of the nmh suite) to sort into folders.

-Marcel van der Goot




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