Adrian Sutton describes how he has set up SpamAssassin and Mail’s inbuilt Junk Filter to work together for extra spam-catching cleverness.

Having set up both SpamAssassin and Mail to dump their spam in Mail.app’s Junk folder, he runs SpamAssassin’s sa-learn script in a cron job so that it learns from what Mail’s Junk filter catches as well.

Running sa-learn –ham on Mail’s Inbox after returns false positives with Mail’s “Not Junk” button, helps SpamAssassin learn what’s not spam.

As a result, he has “a partially self-training system with a user-friendly interface”.mail.app, apple mail, spam, junk, tips, junk filter, self-training

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Tags: Apple Mail, Apple Mail Tips, Junk, junk filter, mail.app, self-training, spam

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