Re: wallowing out of the spam quagmire

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> So to summarize.  I let procmail/sa do most splitting and culling out
> of spam.  When that is done, the rest comes to my inbox and I deal
> with it by hand.  I hoped to introduce bogofilter at that stage.

My suggestion for you is to tell procmail to run all mail through
bogofilter.  You can tell bogofilter to add a header saying whether
the mail is spam.

Then you can just do header-based splitting, either from procmail or
from nnmail-split-methods.  If you decide to use the fancy spam.el
thing, then you'll need to migrate to nnmail-split-fancy, and to tell
spam.el to split according to bogofilter headers.  You can do that by
setting spam-use-bogofilter-headers to t.

Now the remaining problem is to train bogofilter.  To do this, invoke
G c on the groups/topics involved and set the "spam exit processor"
to "bogofilter".  Also, invoke G c on the spam group and tell it that
the "ham exit processor" is also bogofilter.

Kai