Here is my approach then. Any difficulties you see? Here goes... I will turn autolearn off.
>From a daily cron job I will: - first, move anything over a week old to a spam archive - and second, run sa-learn on my SPAM folder This will allow me to occasionally check for false positives and move them to my HAM folder for relearning before they get moved to the spam archive. Question: When email originally learned as spam gets relearned as ham, the database "forgets" that it was spam, right? Also, any given email in my SPAM folder will only go through sa-learn a maximum of 7 times. But this should not matter. Question: Since once it's learned once, sa-learn ignores it, right? Also, anyone know of a good tool to extract emails (i.e. over a week old) from mbox format and place them in a mbox spam archive. TIA! Blake > Abigail Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You DON'T want to refeed sa-learn the same email and you >> don't want a file that is being used for sa-learn to grow >> too large, for the following reason: > > Just to clarify: There's nothing horrible about refeeding the > same e-mail occasionally. It's necessary if you need to > correct bad learning, and it doesn't hurt otherwise (since sa- > learn just won't learn it). The situation mostly comes up when > you have autolearning on and then feed sa-learn a batch of hand- > selected spam that may include some messages the have already > been identified as spam by autolearning. There's no need to > separate out the already-learned messages first. > > That said, you certainly don't want to keep all your spam in > one giant folder that you learn over and over every night. You > should move or delete old messages once they're learned. > > -- > Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Washington, DC > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. > Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it > help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help > YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
