Re: How to train mail provider's spam filter?

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 20:11:46 +0100
Volker Wysk wrote:

> Hello
> 
> My web/mail provider (Netcup) has spamassassin installed. I don't use
> it, because I couldn't find out how to train it. When activated, I
> get lot of false positives.
> 
> Is someone in a similar situation? How do you train that thing?


It would almost certainly be easier to run your own spamassassin and
have getmail filter through spamc.  You can then pass it to
dovecot via dovecot "deliver", which can use sieve to file the
spam into a spam folder.  

If you use maildir it's fairly easy to set-up training folders. You have
a bit of script that trains directly on the maildir directories  and
then moves the individual files to the 'cur' directory of another
folder. You can then train from any IMAP client.