Faisal -- could you open an enhancement request on the SpamAssassin bugzilla? This would be a useful feature.
--j. Faisal N Jawdat writes: > 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) > > 2. which way do i learn it. > > to step back a bit, my final goal is to be able to figure out which > messages in a folder haven't been learned, and learn only those. in > the ideal situation i can also figure out (ahead of time), whether a > learned message was learned as ham or spam. > > this may be semi-impossible. > > on the other hand, what can i learn from the headers? > > e.g. it looks like autolearn=[something] will tell me about the > autolearner, but is there anything for manual learns? > > where i'm going with all this: > > i can run a cron job to learn the contents of different mailboxes on > a regular basis. what i do now is have a TrainSpam and TrainHam > mailbox, and when something gets misfiled (in Spam or any ham folder) > i just move it in there. every 5 minutes a cron job goes through and > scans things appropriately. <http://www.faisal.com/software/sa- > harvest/quicktrain.html> > > first, i'd like to be able to do that within the mailboxes rather > than using special mailboxes. > > second, i'd like to be able to key off junk mail flags set by the > client (thunderbird, apple mail). i'm using dovecot, so it's a > fairly simple matter of parsing Maildir filenames, but to do it right > i need to combine the knowledge with what spamassassin thinks. > > i might just go write a dovecot plugin to do this in real-time, but > i'm not feeling the motivation to break the mail server with a > misplaced pointer. > > -faisal
