Forrest Beck wrote: > I have collected about 1,000 messages, and the filter is grabbing > things that are not spam. Usually from .mac, yahoo, gmail, or AOL > (etc..). When in testing mode does it just grab all messages? >
When a feature of ASSP is in "test mode", that means that the email will not be blocked even if that is what that feature is designed to do. However you can tag these emails with a prefix like "[spam]" so they can be easily identified. ASSP doesn't "grab" emails. It is a proxy listening device. It listens to the SMTP communications, and will terminate the session of it detects spam. If in a "test mode", the session will be allowed to continue for that particular test mode enabled feature. However, another feature not in test mode may still block the message. > I am not excited about going through all 1,000 messages and finding > which ones are spam. > This isn't for you to do. While ASSP is in its "learning" stage, it is is your interest to have all (or a majority) the features in test mode so email is not lost, and so that your users can identify tagged messages (e.g. [spam]) - and it is their task to forward either positive spams or false-positive hams to the appropriate email addresses to correct ASSP's behavior while it is learning what your organization considers spam or ham. This is configured in the "Email Interface" section of ASSP's configuration. The corrective actions are processed the next time the rebuildspamdb.pl script is run. During the first month of running ASSP, I recommend running it often so that corrections are processed more frequently - which will mean less work for your users to do. > Is there a prebuilt bayesian database that can be loaded? > You could possibly use a copy of someone else's corpus and database, but what you consider spam - someone else may not - and vice-versa. Its not recommended. > or is there a GUI (web-based) utility that can make it easier? > The interactive mechanism for helping ASSP learn what is or is not spam is the "Email Interface" feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
