Mail.app and SpamAssassin in spam-catching harmony
Monday, November 13th, 2006
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”.
Tags: Apple Mail, Apple Mail Tips, Junk, junk filter, mail.app, self-training, spam