On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, joea wrote:
I see where one can forward mail to location and have spamassassin scan them.
For both spam and ham I gather.
Wondering what settings to change to have it ignore any additional info the
forward adds. Yes, I am looking for a bit of spoon feeding here, as, well,
it's been along day.
Forwards are unavoidably mangled and/or abridged as part of the forwarding
process. There are no settings to undo that.
The best you can do if you're doing forwarding for training, is to require
that the original ham/spam be forwarded as an RFC822 attachment, and then
have a mailbox preprocessing step that extracts the attachments and saves
them in the "real" learning mail folders. This doesn't guarantee no lost
or altered data, but it will minimize it. It's also possibly more
technically advanced than your users will be comfortable with.
If your mail server supports it, a better way is to define a couple of
public/shared mail folders (e.g. public IMAP folders) and have people move
missed spams and copy misclassified hams from their private folders to
those public folders. This will avoid the changes made to the message from
being forwarded. Then train from those folders.
If you do that, you probably don't want to leave messages sitting in the
shared ham folder; move them to a private-to-admin folder.
Either way, I don't recommend deleting any messages that were submitted
for training - in other words, keep your training corpora. Having your
training corpora allows you to troubleshoot and correct accidental (or
malicious) mistraining, and allows you to wipe and retrain from scratch if
you need to (e.g. if you lose your entire Bayes database for some reason).
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