On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:59:21AM +0100, Sander Holthaus - Orange XL wrote:
> I've been interested in offering customers to train manually train the > SpamAssassin Bayes filter for ham and spam (to reduce false positives and > negatives). However, I can only find documentation to this for local > mailboxes and IMAP. Most users however, retrieve their mail through POP and > use Outlook (Express) as mail client. Is there a way to train SpamAssassin > with such a setup (e.g. forwarding mail with Outlook (Express) using SMTP)? There are various schemes to do this; the tricky part is getting people to submit emails in a consistent format - if you can get them to forward them as mesage/rfc822 attachments, it probably wouldn't be too hard to write a program to extract them and train... I imagine this would be too complicated for many users, though. One scheme that we've used is to have specially named IMAP folders that users can place mis-classified emails in for training.. then you can have a server-side robot which trains the filter and then discards the emails.
