[Spambayes] SpamBayes

[Toby Dickenson]

On Saturday 26 February 2005 21:57, ac287 at city.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I’m currently doing a study, as part of my degree, to investigate whether 
> diversity can be applied to spam filters to improve their effectiveness. 

Spambayes-dev at python.org might be a better audience.

> I  just had a few questions regarding SpamBayes.
> 
> Is it possible to pipe/redirect messages through spambayes one at a time 
> using the DOS command line to classify messages? If so what would the 
> command look like for a message named ‘test.txt’ (for example).

Pipe it into sb_filter.py
For command line options, run "sb_filter -h" or read the source.

> Also once the message has been piped through how can I then check whether 
> it has been classified as spam/ham or unsure?

The message appears on stdout with a couple of extra headers

$ echo -e "From: noone\n\nHello world"|python sb_filter.py
From: noone
X-Spambayes-Classification: spam; 0.91
X-Spambayes-Evidence: '*H*': 0.12; '*S*': 0.93; 'to:none': 0.72; 'world': 
0.80;
        'message-id:invalid': 0.99

Hello world

-- 
Toby Dickenson