spamassassin/user_prefs

[Charles Howse]

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On Monday 22 March 2004 09:12 am, Nigel Wade wrote:
> Charles Howse wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > While reading another thread, I remembered I had no custom preferences
> > for spamassassin, and decided to create some.
> >
> > I use the default settings for starting spamassassin at boot, and the
> > following filters in KMail:
> > 1. In KMail menus, select Settings->Configure Filters
> > 2. Create a new filter with filter criteria:
> >     <any header> matches regular expression .
> >     (the regular expression is just the character "." meaning
> >     "any character")
> >     and filter action:
> >     pipe through spamc
> >     Uncheck the box "stop processing if this filter matches"
> > 3. Add a second filter below the one created in step 2, with criteria:
> >     <any header> contains X-Spam-Flag: YES
> >     and action:
> >     move to folder trash
> >     (or whatever you want to do with your spam)
> >     check the "stop processing..." box
> >
> > These filters are working fine, with the exception of those html spams
> > with all the random words in the body when viewed in text mode.
> >
> > I was just wondering if anyone would like to share some _generic_
> > preferences for ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, or comment.
>
> The way to catch those is with Bayesian filtering. You need to teach the
> Bayesian filter with sufficient messages so that it learns what is spam and
> what is not (at least 1000 of each is a good rule of thumb for best
> accuracy).

For the sake of the original subject, I was interested in the user_prefs file.


I'm periodically training it with sa -learn on the MissedSpam folder.  I'll 
'get there' sooner or later.

I have never seen a false positive in my FilteredSpam folder, so I see no need 
to train it on what *is* spam.  Am I wrong?

> But if you are going to do spam filtering in the mail client, why not use
> Mozilla/Firebird? It has Bayesian filtering built in, and it's pretty good
> once it's been taught. It's much easier to teach than SA for a single user
> - a single mouse click is all that's required for each message.

I'm using Mozilla Firebird 0.7, and don't see a built in mail client...?


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Charles Howse
Jackson, TN
Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org)
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