Handling bounced spam messages

Tom Anderson tanderso at oac-design.com
Mon Jun 13 17:22:45 CEST 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Constable" <markc at renta.net>
To: "bogofilter" <bogofilter at bogofilter.org>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:22 AM
Subject: Handling bounced spam messages 


> The admin users of mine and vhost domains get bounces back for
> all sorts of reasons and they often go into an unsure folder
> until trained not to. What bothers me is that by retraining
> these bounced messages to be ham I suspect I am destabilizng
> databases and polluting them with highly spammish tokens from
> these bounced spams.
> 
> Is this really a potential problem and can anyone suggest a
> good strategy to deal with bounces and otherwise spammish
> admin messages so that obviously spammish tokens do not get
> relearned as ham tokens ?
> 
> (Sure, I could try some variations but I thought someone else
> may have already tackled this and have a reliable strategy.)

Simply don't train with them at all.

Tom




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