Re: feed MimeDefanged mail to sa-learn?

[Keith Whyte]

Alex S Moore wrote:
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 16:17:58 -0600
Keith Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

Maybe another, more simple way to ask the question I asked yesterday:
When my MimeDefang/Spamassassin system tags a message as spam, it adds
the Spamassassin report as an attachment to the original message.
Can somebody confirm for me that it would be a BAD idea to feed these
MD modified messages to sa-learn?
   

That is the only way that bayes is trained at my location for probably
close to two years. My MIMEDefang filter adds the SA report to the
e-mail. So spam mail has an additional part called something like
SpamAssassinReport.txt.  The bayes database contains the past two to
three months of tokens.  It works very, very well.
The list for MD could be more help if you are having problems with this.
Alex
 

what occured to me later is that when MD sends a message to spamassassin 
to analyse, it hasn't modified it. If that message scores more that the 
auto_learn_threshold, then sa will auto learn the original, right?
it's only after SA returns the spam score to MD that md goes about it's 
insertion of header, attaching the report etc.
maybe that's the best way, just let it autolearn. I get quite a lot of 
spam scoring 20+
then i just need to feed it ham.
there's another question - if i feed a system-wide bayes ham from only 
one user, will that cause wierdness?

thanks all!
Keith.