Please correct me if I am wrong. But I thought I saw a posting a while back (when 2.50 came out) that doing what you are doing would shift the balance of the Bayes DB toward one side or another. I remember someone clearly stating that you need an equal amount of SPAM and HAM to do this.
Louis On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 12:13, Genchev, Sergei wrote: > > I was wondering if it could be possible to get sa-learn to just look at > the message text > > and ignore all header information when I feed it with messages from > exchange (since exchange screws everything up). > > > That way all users on the exchange-system could just forward their emails > to a spambox or a public folder which sa- > > learn then learns from (through imap or whatever). > > > Shouldn't that be better than nothing? Or is it a bad idea? > > I know I would loose valuable header information for bayes, but as it is > now I'm not able to feed bayes at all from > > outlook.. > > I am using Exchange and public folders to train my bayes filters. We have 2 > public folders - HAM and SPAM. People would move/copy (not forward, just > drag-and-drop in Outlook) uncaught SPAM to SPAM folder and mislabeled ham to > HAM folder. Then I use fetchmail to get messages and train bayes. Works > pretty well for me. > Exchange does not "screw up" headers any more than other mail servers. It > just adds one more "Received" - just like any mail server would. Outlook - > not Exchange - removes all of the original headers when you replying or > forwarding an E-mail message. > > > ------------------------- > This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use > of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please be aware > that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this e-mail or any attachment > is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender > and delete all copies. > Thank you for your cooperation > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. > If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a > relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. > Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk -- - -- --- ¤¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ ¤°`°Lightbridge, Inc ¤°`°67 South Bedford St. ¤°`°Burlington MA 01802 ¤°`°781.359.4795 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ¤°`°http://www.lightbridge.com ¤¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤øø¤º°`°º¤ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
