On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Ben Johnson wrote:
John, thanks for pointing-out the problems associated with re-sending the messages via sendmail.I threw a line out to the Dovecot users group and learned how to move messages without going through the MTA. Dovecot has a utility executable, "deliver", which is well-suited to the task. For those who may have a similar need, here's the Dovecot Antispam pipe script that I'm using, courtesy of Steffen Kaiser on the Dovecot Users mailing list: --------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash mode= for opt; do if test "x$*" == "x--ham"; then mode=HAM break elif test "x$*" == "x--spam"; then mode=SPAM break fi done if test -n "$mode"; then # options from http://wiki1.dovecot.org/LDA /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -d u...@example.com -m Training.$mode fi exit 0 ---------------------------------------
That seems a lot better.
Regarding the second point, I'm not sure I understand the problem. If someone drags a message from Trash to SPAM, shouldn't it be submitted for learning as spam? The last sentence sounds like somewhat of a deal-breaker. Doesn't my whole strategy go somewhat limp if ham cannot be submitted for training? John and RW, do you recommend enabling or disabling the append option, given the way I'm reviewing the submissions and sorting them manually?
I think they're proceeding from the assumption of *un-reviewed* training, i.e. blind trust in the reliability of the users.
If it's possible to enable IMAP Append on a per-folder basis then enabling it only on your training inbox folders shouldn't be an issue - the messages won't be trained until you've reviewed them.
Without that level of fine-grain control I still don't see an issue from this if you can prevent the users from adding content directly to the folders that sa-learn actually processes. If IMAP Append only applies to "shared" folders then there shouldn't be a problem - configure sa-learn to learn from folders in *your account*, that nobody else can access directly.
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