On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, jdow wrote:
I'm just a touch naive here; but, it seems to me it should be possible, somehow, to build running spamd daemons, one with the regular rules and one with the mass check rules.
There's nothing special about "masscheck rules". Masscheck is just running the current ruleset against hand-classified corpora (ideally _large_ hand-classified corpora) to see what hits.
The second one is fed the email in parallel with the first but deletes the mail once the scores are logged.
This can easily be done by analysis of spamd logs. It logs all the rules hit on every message scanned.
The downside is that this is not "confirmed ham" and "confirmed spam".
That unfortunately is the critical part. You can easily glean whether or not SA thinks a message is "spammy" and what rules led to that classification, the tough part is confirming whether or not it's _right_.
I wonder how much companies would pay for a part time SpamAssassin honcho who can be trusted (bonded?) and can write SARE-ish rules tailored to the company's email. Is there a job opportunity for somebody here?
I'd do that. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Bother," said Pooh as he struggled with /etc/sendmail.cf, "it never does quite what I want. I wish Christopher Robin was here." -- Peter da Silva in a.s.r ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 days until Christmas
