Phil Barnett wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 00:17, Faisal N Jawdat wrote:
>> On Apr 16, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Matt Kettler wrote:
>>> Try to learn it, if it comes back with something to the affect of:
>>> "learned from 0 messages, processed 1.." then it's already been
>>> learned.
>> this seems to be the common suggestion.
>>
>> it has a couple drawbacks, as i see it:
>>
>> 1.  it's relatively cpu-intensive if i want to do it all the time
>> (e.g. scan my spam folder to learn only the messages which haven't
>> already been learned)
> 
> Move the messages to a different folder after you learn them.

This is what I do. Well, sort of. I copy the mbox file to a temp file, and
then echo '' > MissedSpam and then run sa-learn on the copy. Once sa-learn
is done, I remove the temp file.

If you're using MailDir it's even easier...

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