Confirming false results

[Tom Diehl]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, David Relson wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:00:42 -0400 (EDT)
> Tom Diehl wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Just a quick question, if I have users that use pop boxes and filter
> > spam with their mua based on the header, what is the correct way to
> > send misclassified messages back to the server for training? IOW: can
> > I just forward it to a spam or ham email address to be captured for
> > later processing or will the extra headers added by the forwarding
> > process mess with the training process?
> > 
> > The docs seem to indicate that what I want to do is OK but I just
> > wanted to be sure.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Tom
> 
> Hello Tom,
> 
> Welcome to the mailing list!

Thank You.

> Here's what I think will work.  Give it a try and, please, report back
> how well it works:
> 
> 1) Use your mailer's "forward as attachment" capability to send it to
> the ham/spam mailboxes.
> 
> 2) In processing the mailboxes, use these steps:
>    a) Run formail to separate messages
>    b) For each message in (a) use the "mime.get.rfc822" script
>       distributed with bogofilter to extract the original message
>    c) Run bogofilter on the result of (b)
> 
> Also, a perl script named bfproxy is a contrib included in the
> bogofilter distribution.  It's a helper script with step (2c).  If you
> encounter questions on its use, post them to the list and its author
> will help you.

Sounds good. I will give it a try and let everyone know how I make out.

Thank You, to all who replied.

Tom