> -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 5:20 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Cc: Peter Marshall > Subject: Re: Manually training SpamAssassin by forwarding mail > > Peter Marshall wrote: > > Kevin Sullivan wrote: > > > >> --On 02/03/05 01:59:21 +0100 Sander Holthaus - Orange XL wrote: > >> > >>> I've been interested in offering customers to train > manually train > >>> the SpamAssassin Bayes filter for ham and spam (to reduce false > >>> positives and negatives). However, I can only find > documentation to > >>> this for local mailboxes and IMAP. Most users however, retrieve > >>> their mail through POP and use Outlook (Express) as mail > client. Is > >>> there a way to train SpamAssassin with such a setup (e.g. > forwarding > >>> mail with Outlook > >>> (Express) using SMTP)? > >> > >> > >> > >> If you want to do a lot of programming, you could save all > incoming > >> messages for a few days in a database somewhere. When a user > >> forwards a message to a special "ham" or "spam" mailbox, > you pull the > >> message-id from the message and use it to recover the original > >> message from your database. > >> > >> -Kevin > > > > > > My question is the same as Henrik, I have a bunch of email that is > > spam (either tagged by spam assassin or not tagged at all. > I forwared > > it as an attachment to a "spam" mail box. What do I have to do now > > before I can get bayes to learn the message ... I read you have to > > remove the headers .... Could anyone give me a little more detail ? > > I use a modified version of the DMZS-sa-learn.pl from: > http://www.dmzs.com/tools/files/spam.phtml > > When someone forwards a spam to me, I move the message to a > special imap folder that gets processed by the script. My > additions look something like: > > use Email::MIME; > ... > my $msg = Email::MIME->new($raw_message_body); > > my @parts = $msg->parts; > > foreach (@parts) { > if ($_->content_type =~ m|message/rfc822|) { > sa_learn($_->body_raw); > } > } > > > I've tested this with messages forwarded as attachment from > Outlook and Thunderbird. I'm not sure how effective it is > though. I'm sure that it still looses something in the > translation. All imap is really the way to go if you can. > > > Stuart Johnston
Would it be an idea to stip the delivered to-header from the message, as this will have no meaning to distinct between ham/spam? Also, I was wondering if anybody who is using spam-learn and ham-learn has any protection build in to stop non-system users from mailing to those addresses? Kind Regards, Sander Holthaus
