----- Original Message ----- From: "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: SPAMD with sa-learn
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Tai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 00:02, Asif Iqbal wrote: > >> Hi All > >> > >> I am using spamd/spamc with Qmail. My spamd/spamc are owned by qmailq > >> user. Now for emails that are miscaught as spam or failed to catch as > spam > >> needs to be learned by a user. Now I am not sure how I can pick those > >> slipped and false spams and pipe them through sa-learn so that only one > >> user learns all these > >> > >> I can create a user called spam and forward all the spams that are > >> missed and have a dot-qmail file with sa-learn. But it is not the same > >> user who owns spamd. Also I can create a user called ham and forward all > >> emails that are falsely labeled as spam and have a dot-qmail file > >> sa-learn to learn it as ham. > >> > > > You shouldn't forward mail to be learned by bayes because bayes will > > pick up your FWD headers and tag those as spam. > > > > I would suggest setting up a cron job that executes as the user spamc is > > running as to search through a Spam folder, learn it as Spam, then > > search through Inbox/Sent/whatever and learn it as Ham. > > I understand the downside part about forwarding spam back to myself at > a spam account well enough. Is there a procmailrc entry that can be used > to strip off the forwarding headers and then forward that to the sa-learn > tool as the "From:" addressee user? That might be a handy way to make > training easier from non-Linux email software like Outlook Express. At home, I get email with Outlook Express from my remote Linux machine using POP3. OE moves "[SPAM]" tagged email to a spam folder, and I drag these, or missed spam, (or ham) to the corresponding spam or ham IMAP folder, thus putting them back on the Linux machine to be learned at a time I decide later. Works great.
