Topic: Learn rpm - what use is LearnInWL ?

[femc]

I understand now a little bit the usage of the 'Learn' rpm. Understand, I have to make with an imap client 2 new mailboxes LearnAsSpam and LearnAsHam, and then sort the by me selected spam or ham messages into these 2 em boxes, and then once per day a cron job runs, and learns what senders i classified as ham and spam, and then tags such senders in future. At least I hope that how it will work.

But what function has the LearnInWL mailbox ?

PS : I am far away from a linux guru, and have several sme's ( physical and virtual ). A kind request - could the contrib providers please list more on how the contribs have to be used. Would be of great help, and save users like me a lot of time

hdmueller

[mmccarn]

You're a little off on what LearnAsSpam and LearnAsHam do.

They DO NOT whitelist or blacklist senders, since spammers rarely send email from the same address twice. 

They analyze the specified message headers and contents and use the result to either increase (LearnAsSpam) or decrease (LearnAsHam) the "spamminess" score applied to any new email received by the Bayesian portions of spamassassin (read more about Bayesian Spam Filtering here.

This allows spamassassin to know that an email is spam based on the email content (what words are used, and what order they are used in) if the same or a similar spam message is received from two completely different servers and senders.

With properly implemented and well-trained bayesian SPAM and HAM data, you are unlikely to need to use white listing (in my opinion).

So, to directly answer your question:
According to http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#How_do_I_enable_smtp_authentication_for_users_on_the_internal_network, the LearnInWL does what you thought was done by the LearnAsHam - it White Lists the senders of emails placed in the specified folder.

[femc]

ok - thks a lot

hdmueller