Training on sent mail

[John G Walker]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:14:30 -0500 David Relson
<relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

Thanks for the info, David, but the enquiry came from Malcolm,

-- 
 All the best,
 John