Training SA

[Julian Field]

At 15:42 24/02/2004, you wrote:
>Julian Field <mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
> > At 15:20 24/02/2004, you wrote:
> >>>>> Michael St. Laurent wrote:
> >>>>> I have MailScanner set to add the {Spam?} tag to the Subject line
> >>>>> and to make the original message an attachment.  Will either of
> >>>>> these throw off the training process?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
>
>Okay then.  I guess I need to turn off the feature that puts the original
>spam message into an attachment.
>
>Is the modification of the Subject line Okay or will that also screw up the
>engine?

There's an option you can put into spam.assassin.prefs.conf that tells SA
to ignore particular headers when learning mail. Read "man
Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf" to find it.
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