This is a home system with only a few users. All users have "Spam" and "Ham" folders showing up in their email program of choice, and they just drag messages they do or don't like into the appropriate folders. There are "Oldham" and "Oldspam" mboxes, and the new spam and ham (respectively) get merged into these folders after learning, and removed from the current Spam and Ham folders. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Grant To: users@spamassassin.apache.org ; Loren Wilton ; hg user Sent: Monday, February 20, 2023 12:47 PM Subject: Re: Strange findings debugging bayes results
On 20 February 2023 12:28:00 CET, Loren Wilton <lwil...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > A cron job that will harvest Spam and Ham mboxes and feed them to sa-learn once a day, then archive the learned messages. Per-user bayes and learning. Mail is hand-moved into the spam and ham learning folders, and for my personal account, I do this rarely, generally only when a message is mis-categorized. Although messages being mis-categorized as spam is often the result of a lot of quite aggressive local rules I have rather than a Bayes mis-classification. When you "harvest" ham from mboxes, what do you consider ham? You also, additionally, have a Ham folder for your users then? Interesting. Did you manage to train your users to use it easily? Does it grow unbounded or are old messages removed from it? If so, how to know they can be deleted like from the Spam folder. It's an interesting idea, just wondering about the details. Getting my users to train spamassassim has always been impossible for me.
