Re: spam, imap: false pos: use-BBDB-exclusive, use-blacklist,

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, oub@mat.ucm.es wrote:

>>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 
> 
>     Ted> Open the article(s) in question, hit `t' to display
>     Ted> everything, then run the following functions:
> 
> Ok I do this, but what do I gain, from displaying everything?

The spam-split commands I gave you will work properly (otherwise
critical information that could be triggering a bug may be hidden).

>     Ted> M-: (spam-split 'spam-use-BBDB 'spam-use-blacklist
>     Ted> "SPAM.REAL") M-: (spam-split 'spam-use-BBDB-exclusive
>     Ted> "SPAM.HAM")
> 
> Strange results,
> 
> In gnus 5.10.6 (or better the official XEmacs version 1.78) I get 
> nil in both cases
> 
> However in the snap shot I installed yesterday (and which works after
> some problems)
> 
> I get 
> 
> M-: (spam-split 'spam-use-BBDB 'spam-use-blacklist    "SPAM.REAL")
>  "SPAM.REAL"
> 
> M-: (spam-split 'spam-use-BBDB-exclusive "SPAM.HAM")
>  "SPAM.HAM"

> This is correct? If so I will stick to the new snapshot version for a
> while and then give spam-stat a try.[1]


Great.

> [1]  a little of topic, anybody as a good advice how to deal with
> false positives, when using IMAP and no external filter program, such
> as bogofilter.

Generally, you re-train on them, un-registering them as spam and then
registering them as ham.

Ted