So it sounds like I may be better off NOT training on existing messages. Only
on new that come in.
Don Ireland
-----Original Message-----
From: Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, Mar 12, 2007 5:23 am
Subject: Re: Training SA-Migrating from old IMAP to new IMAP server
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
On Sunday 11 March 2007 18:09, Don Ireland wrote:
> I'm my email over from the services of fusemail.com to the IMAP server that
> comes with my shared hosting account.
>
> When I copy my messages over from the old server, do I just run SA-learn
> against the messages as they are? Or will the fact that they have fusemail
> headers in them cause SA to think messages without fusemail headers are
> spam?
If so, you can make bayes ignore those headers with bayes_ignore_header in
local.cf. See the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf(3pm) manpage.
> I've always deleted spam after training the filters so I don't have any to
> feed to to the new system. Will that be a problem?
Having too great an imbalance in numbers between ham and spam will bias the
bayes classifier towards "everything is spam" or in this case "everything is
ham".
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