[pmmail-list] Filter statistics

[Derek W. Keoughan]

On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 20:30:32 -0600, Jon Etkins wrote:

>Purely out of curiosity, I'd like to start gathering some stats on my
>incoming mail - specifically how many items are received each day, and
>what percentage of them are spam.

Couldn't you just filter the spam to a folder, and have PMMail keep
track of the number of items in there for you?

Seems like using an external program to do this is using a sledgehammer
to swat a fly...

I use SpamBayes (for Python) on a Windows box on my network to filter
eMail - anything coming in gets marked with an X- header as spam, ham
(keeps), or unsure... I can train the filter by bouncing eMail it using
a reserved eMail address.

Anything with "spam" in the X-header gets filtered to a "SpamBayes"
folder in PMMail, which I go through at least once a day, since there's
usually something good ("ham") in there... 329 waiting for me this
morning... once deleted, they wind up in the trash, and since I last
deleted my Trash folder on the 4th, there's 1529 more in there...

Without SpamBayes, I'd be stuck reading spam instead of all the eMails
from my clients and friends!

-Derek


Derek W. Keoughan,
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