bogofilter auto-training

[David J. Weller-Fahy]

* Jef Poskanzer <jef at acme.com> [2003-05-05 07:44]:
> I'm not using the -u auto-registration flag yet, but I'll probably
> turn it on once I'm happy with the scores I get from manual training.
> However, I just had an idea - how about auto-registering all your
> own *outgoing* mail as non-spam?  Anyone already tried this?  Seems
> like this would not only give good examples of guaranteed non-spam,
> but it would also tend to make any replies to your mail score as
> non-spammish too.

I haven't been playing with bogofilter much, just using it, but I've
been doing this for about 4-5 months.  Instead of using the record or
fcc option in mutt I bcc all outgoing mail to myself.  That causes the
outgoing mail to be processed through my procmail scripts, and thus
registered as non-spam with bogofilter.  I use the -u option.

Since using it I haven't noticed a huge decrease in false negatives (~2
per day), but I can't remember when I last had a false positive.

Oh, and my goodlist is 16M, spamlist 6.6M.

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