Fwd: Is whitelisting possible?

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 04 December 2010 18:20:19 you wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com>
> Date: 4 December 2010 14:08
> Subject: Re: Is whitelisting possible?
> To: Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
> Cc: bogofilter at bogofilter.org
> 
> 
> 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 :->
> 
:-D We go back a long way.  /me waves to Charles as well.

> Patience is the key. I've seen the training process take a long
> time.
> 
I've been training on these for 18 months, so I think they must just be too 
confusing - perhaps not enough common vocabulary, and too high a proportion of 
URLs.

> 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.
> 
Yes, I train regularly on batches, and most times it works well.

> I also have email from Border's books that is classified as spam.
> Training with that will eventually move it to ham.
> 
I guess that might have similar characteristics to the Magnatune ones.  My 
regular Amazon emails are recognised without a problem but the format is quite 
different.

> Be patient :->
> 
My attempts at implementing the whitelisting broke procmail.  It seems that I 
don't have formail installed.  I'll look at that again soon, but for the 
moment I've just moved the Magnatune recipe to run before Bogofilter sorts 
them.

Anne
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