Bob Apthorpe said: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Andrew Allison wrote: > > > My Web host uses SpamAssassin to filter e-mail, but quite a bit gets > > through. I've looked at the FAQs and don't find a mechanism for a Windows > > (2000) user to submit the offending e-mails for inclusion in the filtering. > > Is there one? > > No. Very simply, SpamAssassin has a large library of patterns (rules) that > it checks mail against. Those patterns are assigned scores by analyzing a > large body of spam and non-spam at the time a new version of SpamAssassin > is released. The rules and scores are updated persiodically (with each new > version) but not dynamically, and my understanding is there's no means of > submitting spam to the testing corpus without being an active SA > developer. If this isn't correct, I'm sure someone will tactfully clarify > matters... :)
Well, in version 2.50 (not yet released, but will be soon), the admin will be able to feed such messages into the learner using "sa-learn-spam" and "sa-learn-nonspam", and that'll tweak the Bayesian learning system. Mechanisms for doing so will be up to each individual site, but would probably involve forwarding a copy of the offending mails (with all headers) to the admin. --j. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
