[TriLUG] Re: more spamassassin, procmail, damaged 'from' line and beyond

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 17:17, Turnpike Man wrote:
> 
> --- James Manning wrote:
> > > [Turnpike Man]
> > > To:
> > > :0:
> > > * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes 
> > > /dev/null
> > > 
> > > With that change, no longer would messages accumulate in caughtspam, but
> > they
> > > would literally disappear, right??
> > 
> > yes, but false positives will happen at some point.
> 
> This is good to know and other good info as well, but I don't know if I'm
> suddenly ready to jump into the spam/ham thing just yet.  If there was a way to
> determine where an email goes based on its number of hits, that would be great.
>  If an email message got 5.3 hits, I might want to label that as **SPAM** and
> check it myself to see... but if an email gets 15.3 hits, it would seem that
> would be unmistakably spam and should be immediately forwarded to /dev/null. 
> Is there a way to do this?  After having this setup and running for a little
> while, and tweaking some basic settings along the way, maybe then I'll be ready
> for spam/ham AI learning!
> 

The point is that you don't want to discard the spam, because then you
won't have it around any more for the learning phase.  (Though there is
also auto-learning, which will take care of the spam with really big
points.  If you set the /dev/null procmail threshold that you're
proposing to the same as the autolearn threshold, then there'd be no
need to keep around the really high-scoring spam.  This default is 12
IIRC.)

--Jeremy

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