RE: SPAM & HAM Reporting Suggestions

Currently I am the only one feeding spam / ham to this IMAP account.  I am 
hesitant to give free rein to other users to feed
messages into SA.  sa-learn requires the full headers to be in the message.  
Simply forwarding these messages will cause havoc to
the bayes db system that tracks the examples of spam and ham.  Our office is a 
PC based office and MS outlook does not have an easy
way to redirect e-mail keeping the headers intact.

Right now I am still watching SA filter spam.  I have all spam caught by SA 
being rejected but I am also sending a copy to my
learning account to check for false positives and negatives.

Version 2.6 plus some custom rules from the SA community have really beefed up 
the spam filtering hits.  I am getting very few spams
through and very little in the way of false positives.  The SA mailing list is 
a great source of tips and tricks and help with
custom rules for SA.  I only have 2 PO SMTP filters now.  I have SA and a 
simple filter to add quick fix blocks for the odd e-mail
that comes in.  I used to have 10+ PO filters blocking IP's keywords, domains, 
etc. with no real effect on the flood of spam.  SA
has changed all of that.

All we need is a virus scanner plug-in... (Tenon... please add this! - Please & 
Thanks)

I think I will eventually open up the spam reporting to our users but I want to 
make sure I have SA working properly first.

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bergkvist [mailto:david@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 9:22 AM
> To: post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: SPAM & HAM Reporting Suggestions
>
>
> tisdagen den 2 december 2003 kl 00.15 skrev Jim Strickland:
>
> > What I did was create a SpamAssassin IMAP account. Within that account
> > I used one of my email client machines to create two folders, one for
> > junkmail, and one for goodmail. I give each client machine access to
> > those two folders. Each person in my company can now move junkmail to
> > the "junkmail" folder and copy good mail to the "goodmail" folder. I
> > can then run sa-learn on those two folders. So far everything seems to
> > be working great.
>
> Sounds very good. But how do you give your other mail clients access to
> the junkmail IMAP folder? Don't IMAP just let in the user that own the
> account?
>
> Yours,
>
> /David Bergkvist

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