-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Kurt,
Monday, November 17, 2003, 11:03:24 AM, you wrote: KB> I've just put up 2.60 on FreeBSD, and consider myself a bit of a KB> newb, but I've been reading the man page for spamassassin, and found KB> a section on spamtrapping. We've got 40 or so addresses of former KB> employees that would be ideal for this purpose, but I'm not much KB> interested in Razor/DCC, etc. What I'd really like to do is feed the KB> spamtrapped stuff into the Bayes database. Is this a reasonable KB> thing, and if so, is there a way to do it? You don't indicate how your email is being delivered and/or retrieved. My methods work for POP3 on my system -- YMMV Concern: Are you 1000% sure that EVERY email sent to those addresses will be spam? I have an old email address for someone no longer with the organization that was discontinued 6 or 7 years ago, and we still get one or to valid emails to that address each year. I'm therefore unable to use that address as an automatic spamtrap. You do NOT want to poison your own Bayes database with even one or two messages a year. Method: Auto-forward any such addresses to a common spamtrap mailbox. Run sa-learn --spam --mbox $directory/inbox against that mailbox every so often (daily? hourly?). Delete the inbox file after each sa-learn run. Alternate (no special spamtrap needed): Auto-forward any/all unknown email address (eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to a common "check these out" mailbox. Add rules to your local.cf to kick the SA score above your auto-learn threshold for these specific email addresses. They'll be auto-learned. Note: Both methods assume system-wide Bayes. It'll do no good to apply these to one Bayes database which is not used by the majority of email users. Bob Menschel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBP7mPfJebK8E4qh1HEQIlygCfZJ4jgqOvakGBdb2MUXZtZfzAQrkAoKBU s0YiNlYRxOnfmLzMG+dtnC+C =52ww -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
