[TriLUG] Spamassassin question - Bayesian filtering

[Turnpike Man]

All this spam and ham talk... where's the green eggs??  *holds hands to head to
keep it from spinning*  I have much to learn... 

David

--- Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 14:26, Mike Broome wrote:
<snip>
> > and the commands to feed those mailboxes to SA to update the spam/ham
> > databases.  The short answer is using the following commands:
> > 
> >   sa-learn-spam --mbox uncaught-spam-mbox
> >   sa-learn-nonspam --mbox false-positive-mbox
> > 
> > There was a follow-up comment that spamassassain v2.50 combined those
> > two programs into a single sa-learn program with "-spam" and "-ham"
> > options that give the same affect as sa-learn-spam and sa-learn-nonspam,
> > respectively.
> 
> Right, that's what I'm doing; with SA 2.50 the commands are "sa-learn
> --ham" and "sa-learn --ham", respectively (note double-dashes).  But the
> problem that I'm trying to figure out is the fact that "autolearning"
> will already have put the uncaught spam into the "ham" side of the
> database, because it didn't realize it was spam.  So if I do 'sa-learn
> --spam' will it automatically *remove* that spam's data from the ham
> database, since I'm now telling it that's it spam?   Or do I need to run
> it through with the "--forget" option first ?    If the same email is in
> both databases, then it will cancel itself out, which doesn't help the
> learning at all!
> 
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