Have you looked at sa-learn? I believe that's what you need. Dan
-----Original Message----- From: Rick van der Zwet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:06 AM To: Matt Kettler Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: howto set bayes to ignore certain patterns? On 6/26/07 3:51 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: >> I know which headers to ignore and set those using the >> bayes_ignore_header tags. But I would also like to ignore certain >> (pattern of) words. >> .... > Well, if you use SQL, you could have a script find the relevant sha1 > hashes and remove them. > > However, why do you want to do this in the first place? > > SA's chi-squared combining is pretty good at ignoring words that > appear in both spam and nonspam... Cause I know for example some really specific words which are added all the time like footers/disclaimers/mailinglist prefixes. And I don't want this words to affect the bayes score. If you take for example a small spam message the ratio bad/good words will be about 50 or more. /Rick -- http://rickvanderzwet.nl