Training on sent mail

[David Relson]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:20:55 +0000
John G Walker wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:02:39 +1100 Malcolm Ryan
> <malcolmr at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> > Is there any way to train bogofilter on my _sent_ mail, so it gets
> > to know the people I usually correspond with? Sometimes I send mail
> > to someone, only to have their response labelled as spam or unsure.
> > A properly intelligent system shouldn't let this happen. Is there
> > any appropriate bogofilter/procmail magic I could weave to fix it?
> > 
> 
> If you run bogofilter using -B option, followed by the list of files
> containing the sent mails in question, and the -n option to tell
> bogofilter that you want these mails classed as non-spam, this should
> do what you want. 
> 
> You can also follow the -B option with a directory name, but I've
> never tried that. i presume it works, since I've not seen anyone
> complaining, :)
> 
> -- 
>  All the best,
>  John

Hi John,

"-B" works well on directories.  The "B" stands for "bulk mode" and
bogofilter knows how to handle several kinds of mail directories.  More
info can be found in the man page and the FAQ.

HTH,

David