> When training spamassassin, is it a good idea to feed spam already > marked as spam back to SpamAssassin? Will this help it or hinder it or > do neither?
As ever with SpamAssassin, there are many options, and really only you can decide how best to use them, after studying the documentation. If you mean training with the 'sa-learn' command, then it depends on whether the message has been automatically leaned already. Check for autolearn= in the message headers (if it isn't there, then configure things so that it is). If the value is already 'spam', then it's been learned already (and will be ignored if learned again). It the value is 'no' (or worse 'ham') then you could usefully sa-learn it. On the other hand, there's reporting with 'spamassassin --report...' (which learns as for sa-learn, but also reports the spam to wherever. e.g. Razor, Spamcop, etc.). My thoughts are that if the message was so spammy as to get a high score, then there's probably little point (I reject these at SMTP time, so I don't get chance to report them). But if it's only slightly spammy, or isn't detected at all, then reporting it seems a good idea. And if you're worried about the message already containing SpamAssassin markup, then it's supposed to remove it automatically. Clarke Brunt
