Is whitelisting possible?

[David Relson]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 10:13:29 +0000
Anne Wilson wrote:

> I subscribe to Magnatune, so I get frequent emails from them
> describing new releases.  Every time the email ends up in the Unsure
> folder.  Every time, I copy it to the ham training folder, but the
> content is so variable, I think, that Bogofilter is never able to
> classify it properly.  Is there any way that I can add weighting that
> would make this into definitely ham?  Currently Bogofilter marks them
> with anything from 1% to 49.9999% probbility of being spam, with the
> majority being in the 47-49% range.
> 
> Anne

Hello Anne,

'Tis good to hear from one of my friends from my Mandrake days :-> 

Patience is the key. I've seen the training process take a long
time.

When the same junk mail comes to several users _I_ think it's spam,
though bogofilter may not recognize it as such.  So I train.  As more
copies of the same junk comes in, I keep training.  Over time the score
increases and the classification changes from ham to unsure and
(eventually) to spam.

At present I have 2 messages that have progressed from ham to unsure.
I'm keeping up the training knowing that eventually they'll progress to
spam.

I also have email from Border's books that is classified as spam.
Training with that will eventually move it to ham.

Be patient :->

HTH,

David