I'm currently running spamassassin on my mailserver where my users primarily use IMAP to connect.
I want to set up two folders for each user, "spam_to_learn" and "ham_to_learn", so that when they get uncaught spam or caught ham, they can just move the message to the appropriate folder, and once per day my script will run to push the mbox file through sa-learn.
There's two things I'm concerned about:
1. the "hidden" imap message that always sits at the start of the mbox file. Based on my initial tests, it looks like that hidden message gets processed by sa-learn, which tells me token info about my mailserver etc. are getting inadvertently marked as spamy tokens. Is the the case, or should I be worried about it? If this is the case then I can write a routine to flush out the hidden message, but why bother if i don't need to...
2. Ham that got marked as spam. Since spam messages get altered so that the spammy message becomes an attachment to the spam info, when I get a ham that got caught as spam, I suspect that I need to move the "original" message to my ham folder, not the "altered" message? ie. If I move the altered message to the ham folder, the message will contain all of the spam info and the actual message will still be an attachement. the alternative is that they need to open the attachment to see the original ham message and then move THAT message into the ham folder. ???
thoughts?
regards,
Paul
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paulweb@fielding.skoda.ca
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I want to set up two folders for each user, "spam_to_learn" and "ham_to_learn", so that when they get uncaught spam or caught ham, they can just move the message to the appropriate folder, and once per day my script will run to push the mbox file through sa-learn.
There's two things I'm concerned about:
1. the "hidden" imap message that always sits at the start of the mbox file. Based on my initial tests, it looks like that hidden message gets processed by sa-learn, which tells me token info about my mailserver etc. are getting inadvertently marked as spamy tokens. Is the the case, or should I be worried about it? If this is the case then I can write a routine to flush out the hidden message, but why bother if i don't need to...
2. Ham that got marked as spam. Since spam messages get altered so that the spammy message becomes an attachment to the spam info, when I get a ham that got caught as spam, I suspect that I need to move the "original" message to my ham folder, not the "altered" message? ie. If I move the altered message to the ham folder, the message will contain all of the spam info and the actual message will still be an attachement. the alternative is that they need to open the attachment to see the original ham message and then move THAT message into the ham folder. ???
thoughts?
regards,
Paul
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paulweb@fielding.skoda.ca
get rid of the car to email me.