Just reading man sa-learn - you are not supposed to learn spam/ham from this mail list

[Scott Farrell]

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Julian,


thanx for the reply (and on the word/pdf one as well).

I ended up putting a rule on "Spam Checks"

To:     sub at icconsulting.com.au         no
default:                                yes

given sub at icconsulting.com.au is my mail subscription user, mostly for
spamassassin and this list, I assume it now wont go through anything in
spamassassin at all. That way I wont re-inforce any bad bayes learning
from content in this list.

thanx again
Scott



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You could use a ruleset for "Is Definitely Not Spam", and put a rule in
that ruleset that says "yes" to mail from the list address and to you.
Make it say "no" for the default.

If you need more help on rulesets, check out the online docs and buy the
book.

Scott Farrell wrote:

>
> This is from man sa-learn (see below)
>
> I have subscribed to this list (and spamassassin list) using
> sub at icconsulting.com.au
>
> I guess I can spam whitelist with a rule, but that might further
> re-inforce learning. Can I tell it to bypass learning?
>
> or do I have to do something smtp/domain specific, like subscribe an
> address in a domain that is not scanned at all.
>
> EFFECTIVE TRAINING
> <snip>
>        Note that if your mail folders contain things like for¡
>        warded spam, discussions of spam-catching rules, etc.,
>        this will cause trouble.  You should avoid scanning those
>        messages if possible.  (An easy way to do this is to move
>        them aside, into a folder which is not scanned.)
> <snip>
>
>
> Scott
> sfarrell at icconsulting.com.au
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