On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 15:48 +0200, Stefan Jakobs wrote: > On Friday 11 July 2008 17:29, andys wrote: > > for a mail server running email for multiple domains what is the > > typical/recommended way to collect emails which arent detected as spam to > > be processed by sa-learn? Users are downloading mail via POP3, so once a > > users sees a mail and decides that it is in fact spam its already been > > removed from the mail server. If the user forwards the mail to a special > > mailbox for processing then the mail is obviously now different from the > > original spam, the user is the sender etc. Will sa-learn still work using > > this method? and if not what else can I implement that would work? > > This is what I do: > Forwarding the unrecognised message to an account which will process the > message through sal-wrapper.pl. You will find further informations here: > https://po2.uni-stuttgart.de/~rusjako/sal-wrapper
Forwarding alters the message, you will not get reliable results. You can, of course, use auto-learn and let SA take care of it. If you want your users to classify, the best way is to use IMAP instead of POP, and provide server-side training folders that sa-learn can see. If IMAP is not an option then this obviously won't work. If procmail is in use as the LDA, you could set up a rule to clone to a local ham folder to do scheduled training. You could get creative with rules and have it collect a randomly-chosen subset of the ham traffic, or only train where the score is low and the message is not already BAYES_00 or the score is high and the message is not already BAYES_99. However, this would be cloning users' mail (even if only temporarily), and you should obtain their consent before doing this. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products, we buy products. -- Arno Edelmann, Microsoft product manager ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 days until the 63rd anniversary of the dawn of the Atomic Age
