[Spambayes] Training from mail client

[Tim Churches]

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 12:02, Adam Walker wrote:
> Perhaps you should look into the SMTP proxy options on the pop3proxy 
> config page. Instead of tags on the subject line, you can setup two 
> address to forward to, one for spam, one for ham.

Thanks, I 'd overlooked that - problem solved.

Tim C

> 
> Tim Churches wrote:
> 
> > I use SpamBayes with pop3proxy and Evolution on Linux. It works very
> > well, but it would be nice to be able to train with the very few spam
> > messages that get through as soon as I recognise them while browsing my
> > email in Evolution, rather than having to make a note of them, fire up
> > the Web interface, find the offending messages and reclassify them as
> > spam. It is obviously impractical to build this into the user interface
> > of every mail client, so a generic means of doing this is required.
> > Perhaps forwarding such messages to oneself by with a specific, easy to
> > remember (and type) tag prepended to the subject line which signifies to
> > SpamBayes that it should look for this message in its database and
> > reclassify it as Spam. And another tag which does the opposite (rarely
> > needed in my experience). These tags should be user configurable so that
> > incoming mail can't spoof them.
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Tim C

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