Training on sent mail

[dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us]

Quoting tony at svanstrom.org:

> Malcolm Ryan writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> Of course you can train on your sent mail if you want to, but that hasn't
> really got anything to do with what bogofilter does or doesn't do... It's up
> to you to set it up so that the e-mails you want to train on are sent to
> bogofilter..
>
> Just use procmail on outgoing e-mails to store the message-ids, and then
> automatically have replies to all your outgoing e-mails trained on as ham
> when they arrive. That way all replies will get into your inbox without you
> having to train on outgoing e-mails.
>
> The lazy way of doing this is of course to make sure that the message-ids
> are unique enough that you can use procmail on only incoming e-mails to spot
> real replies from those using fake message-ids to trick such filters.
>
> I've been doing this for quite a number of years now, and it's still working
> great; spammers can't get by/use it without seriously increasing the
> costs/time involved; as they'd have to redo their whole harvesting-approach
> to not only get/store more information, but also to keep it updated (ie
> reharvest the same addresses again and again to get enough new message-ids).
>
>
>     /Tony
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Tony,
Do you have your procmail recipe for feeding reply for doing this?  If  
I understand you correctly you are routing all reply's to emails  
originating in your domain to bogofilter as ham?  How do you eliminate  
spam that looks like a re:?

ddh


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Dwayne Hottinger
Network Administrator
Harrisonburg City Public Schools