[Spambayes] Training from mail client

Adam Walker adam.walker at rbwconsulting.com
Sat Oct 18 22:02:49 EDT 2003


Perhaps you should look into the SMTP proxy options on the pop3proxy 
config page. Instead of tags on the subject line, you can setup two 
address to forward to, one for spam, one for ham.

Tim Churches wrote:

> I use SpamBayes with pop3proxy and Evolution on Linux. It works very
> well, but it would be nice to be able to train with the very few spam
> messages that get through as soon as I recognise them while browsing my
> email in Evolution, rather than having to make a note of them, fire up
> the Web interface, find the offending messages and reclassify them as
> spam. It is obviously impractical to build this into the user interface
> of every mail client, so a generic means of doing this is required.
> Perhaps forwarding such messages to oneself by with a specific, easy to
> remember (and type) tag prepended to the subject line which signifies to
> SpamBayes that it should look for this message in its database and
> reclassify it as Spam. And another tag which does the opposite (rarely
> needed in my experience). These tags should be user configurable so that
> incoming mail can't spoof them.

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Adam Walker
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