bayes ignore {spam} tag in subject line

[Julian Field]

At 21:26 06/05/2003, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mikea [mailto:mikea at MIKEA.ATH.CX]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 2:53 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: bayes ignore {spam} tag in subject line
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 03:49:18PM -0400, Bingham, Ryan wrote:
> > > I apologize if this is a dumb question but I haven't been
> > able to find
> > > the answer anywhere.  Is there a way to get Bayes to ignore
> > the {spam}
> > > tag in the Subject line (without ignoring the entire Subject line)?
> > > Alternatively, is there an easy way to remove/replace a text string
> > > i.e. {spam} from all the messages in an mbox file?
> > >
> > > I'd like to have Bayes learn messages in my low scoring
> > spam mailbox
> > > after I've cleaned out the false positives.
> >
> > Well, certainly you can use an editor on the mailbox to do
> > the vim[1] equivalent of
> >
> >         :1,999999 s/^Subject: {spam}/Subject: /
>
>
>I only just saw this message and havn't been tracing this thread, but this
>can be done easier on the command line with sed.  Not to discount vi but if
>this needs done on mass scale, vi won't work the greatest :o)
>
>Cat mailbox | sed -e "s/^Subject: {spam}/Subject:/" >> mailbox.tmp; mv
>mailbox.tmp mailbox

A neater way might be

perl -pi -e 's/^(Subject: )\{spam\}/$1/;' mailbox-file


>To do on many mailboxes in a directory:
>For each in *; do at $each | sed -e "s/^Subject: {spam}/Subject:/" >>
>$each.tmp; mv $each.tmp $each; done;
>
>(capitalization is done by outlook, not by me, don't capitalize anything on
>the unix shell
>
>
>Sorry if this is way off track of conversation, but noticed this piece and
>figured I'd offer to help ease some pain.
>
>-Randy
>
>
>
> >
> > where the line numbers are  dependent on the size of the
> > mailbox. I think it would be safer to work on a _copy_ of the
> > mailbox, rather than on the original, unless it's not needed
> > in a pristine state for archival or other purposes.
> >
> > [1]     emacs users will have their own incantation, and will wave a
> >         totally different object as they chant.
> >
> > --
> > Mike Andrews
> > mikea at mikea.ath.cx
> > Tired old sysadmin since 1964
> >

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Julian Field
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