On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:08:36PM -0500, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > My question was more along the lines of, what's the proper way to > "submit it back via the sa-learn command" (Specifically for missed > spams; I haven't seen any false positives yet.) Do I use the --forget > option because the message would have been counted as non-spam earlier? > Or do I just use the --spam option? None of the documentation is > specific on this.
Hi, Jeremy, There was a recent discussion about spam filtering and the bayesian filtering of spamassassin on the mutt-users lists. Note that I have no personal experience with spamassassin, yet. The thread -- with subject "OT: spam" that started 2/27/03 and is still getting some replies trickling in today -- can be found in a web-based archiver here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104634355700008&r=1&w=2 The posts that might provide answers to your questions are these: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mutt-users&m=104639189329937&w=2 This describes how to save the false positives to an mbox style mailbox and the commands to feed those mailboxes to SA to update the spam/ham databases. The short answer is using the following commands: sa-learn-spam --mbox uncaught-spam-mbox sa-learn-nonspam --mbox false-positive-mbox There was a follow-up comment that spamassassain v2.50 combined those two programs into a single sa-learn program with "-spam" and "-ham" options that give the same affect as sa-learn-spam and sa-learn-nonspam, respectively. This post is also interesting: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mutt-users&m=104648274900735&w=2 It describes one user's finding that the weighting for the bayesian filtering didn't match his expectations and desires and gives the new weighting that he configured. Hope this helps, Mike -- Mike Broome mbroome(at)employees.org _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
