[Spambayes] A couple questions regarding spambayes and it's features

[S James S Stapleton]

> I learned from your mail headers that you use Kmail so there is a 99%
> possibility you're on Linux. Is that correct?
> How do you have SpamBayes set up?
>
> I use it as a procmail filter, like this:
> (I don't have access to my .procmailrc ATM, perhaps later)
>
> * First, a few rules that move mailing list traffic & mail from friends to
> certain folders. This is a sort of procmail whitelist. These kinds of mail
> don't get spamfiltered, however I have used them for initial training. -->
> This already answers your two questions.
> * A rule that scores mail with SB
> * Everything with spamscore 100% gets the /dev/null treatment
> * Remaining spam is moved to my spam suspect folder. (to move manually to
> the training folder later)
> * Unsures are _copied_ to my unsures folder
> * Ham is moved to my inbox or processed by other procmail rules.
>
> The exact syntax of this .procmailrc file is left as an exercise to the
> reader. :)


FreeBSD actually. Close enough for most userland things I guess.
I have the daemon running, and have my email client pointed to localhost for 
receiving. I do my training and such through the web interface (I started 
using Spambayes in Windows, and have grown used to that interface, as it is 
fairly simple). The database is stored in /var/db/sb/
The subject line and the recipient metadata are not marked.

Kmail has a filter to
- Move mail classified as spam to 'junk'
- Move mail classified as unsure to 'unsure'
- It does not mark any mail as read.


The POP server is on a Windows machine. It is MailEnable I believe (I didn't 
set it up, and until I get my own connection, I'm stuck with it).