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Philosophically, the answer is not to do this, as no two people are likely
to have exactly the same reaction to different messages. Now, how much
of a difference is this? Probably quite a bit. I have two instances of
pop3proxy running, one handles four or five accounts on my local workstation,
the other one handles four accounts on another workstation. Mine works
like a charm.
<p>The second one, which handles two low-volume accounts of mine and my
wife's mail, has definite problems because I didn't know every list she
subscribed to. I know that anything that involves quilts or beads is going
to be ham for her, but she has some general interests as well. So there
were some messages that looked like spam to SpamBayes, and I corroborated
that judgment in the training, so even when I go back and take those same
messages and train as ham, it's going to be a while before similar messages
stop ending up in her unsure folder.
<p>Now, if you can figure out a way to make sure that each user only trains
on their own mail, then it probably would work. But the default is for
SB to train by reinforcing its existing decisions, which introduces some
real problems in the multi-user scenario.
<p>I am, however, considering offering the proxy or IMAP on my mail server,
which would allow the users to drop their volume of mail that they actually
pick up. They will be able to do their own training, but they won't have
to do their own local installs.
<p>But sharing a training database looks like a loser to me.
<p>Van
<p>Igor \"JI\" Murashkin wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE> <span class=943344519-11082003><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Hello,
I have a Linux box, on which I have a mail server installed. In short,
I fetch my mail from the server that's on Linux, but I have enough users
-- 20-30 who use my mail server daily.</font></font></span><span class=943344519-11082003>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>My question is, would it be possible
to install SpamBayes so that it filters everything out server side, so
that the spam never even reaches the users, being instantly discarded?
That would be lovely, as I wouldn't want all my users to worry about installing
their own spam filters.</font></font> <span class=943344519-11082003><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Thanks!</font></font></span><span class=943344519-11082003></span><span class=943344519-11082003><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>-Igor</font></font></span></span>
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