OT: Learn Spam the easy way.

[Craig Daters]

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Marcel Blenkers wrote:
> Never seen MailWatch, but is it capable to learn mails, which are already
> at the maschine of the user (fetched via pop3)?
>
MailWatch cannot learn spam that has already been picked up off the mail
server by the user (via POP), BUT if you store your non-spam for X
amount of days (in addition to delivering it to the user) you can use
the 'user filters' feature of Mail Watch to let your users log into a
web GUI (viewing only their mail) and they can teach SpamAssassin which
messages are spam and which are not. This also allows them to recover a
message that may have been deleted, view statistics regarding their mail
usage, etc.

See my recent posts under the 'Quarantine' thread.

A cool trick too...is if you have users who leave (who wouldn't normally
be getting legitimate email anymore) who also get a lot of spam, you can
turn their email addresses into 'spamtraps' and create a cron job to
learn from their mailbox each night. Then in that same cron job, delete
their mail. This has trained my bayes database in no time :)

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