Re: [Evolution] training spam filters

[Eamonn Hamilton <EAMONN HAMILTON saic com>]

If it's folder based, why not have too folders, one for categorised and
the other for uncategorised?

I'm actually looking to do this for a different setup also, which uses
squirrelmail and Cyrus, so this is also interesting :)

My though re the GUI was that sometimes it's pretty useful to be able to
run ad-hoc actions on mail messages, which is where the scripts folder
under nautilus is useful.

A possible way to do this is to modify filters slightly, such that you
can choose which filters get run automatically as messages come in, then
extend the right click menu to have a drop-down with current filter
names. This lets you choose a particular filter to run against a
message, without having to run it for every message.

Cheers,
Eamonn


On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 16:18, John Locke wrote:
> Hmm. I'm working on a system for doing this, without changing the
> Evolution gui...
>
> My plan is to have folder for unrecognized spam. Simply drag a spam into
> this folder and forget about it. A cron script then goes through this
> folder, reclassifies the messages as spam, and then (optionally) copies
> them outside the mail tree to archive as a corpus for training the
> filter for new users.
>
> I'm handling this on the server, which is running Courier-IMAP.
>
> The other direction is a bit trickier, though. Hadn't thought about a
> good way to modify Evolution to do this. My plan was to create a
> Squirrelmail plug-in that added a "This is NOT SPAM" link to the
> message, when you opened it from web mail. My thought is that all users
> on my system will use Squirrelmail for certain tasks, like this and
> changing their password. Then they could use any MUA and at least be
> able to train false negatives. Hopefully, they won't have to do this
> very often...
>
> If you have any bright ideas, I'm interested!
>
>
> On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 01:17, Eamonn Hamilton wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm wondering if anybody has come up with a quick way of training
> > bayesian-type spam filters from the evolution gui?
> <snip>
> > Anybody got any plans in this direction, or is there something obvious
> > I'm overlooking?