Re: whitelisting =sent addresses [Alexy Khrabrov <braver@xxxxxxxxx>, Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:13:04PM -0400, <20030929191304.GA3018%alexy.khrabrov@xxxxxxxxx>] > An obvious way to descrease false negatives in spamfighting > is to whitelist the trusted addresses and procmail-keep them > before passing the rest through bogofilter or such. You mean "false positives". > An obvious list of the trusted addresses are those to whom > you indeed sent anything! And many save their outgoing mail > in a =sent folder. In times where viruses use other people's address books that is actually a method to generate more false negatives. If one of the people in your whitelist starts spilling out viruses, your filter won't notice. (Of course I'm setting spam == viruses here.) > Does anybody have a setup where mutt updates a whitelist > when sending stuff? Or, you can do it via a cron job > scanning the =sent folder and updating a database for > another script called from procmail... (Nicolas already answered that.) Christoph -- Christoph Berg <cb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, http://www.df7cb.de/ Wohnheim D, 2405, Universität des Saarlandes, 0681/9657944
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