On July 20, 2006 06:31 pm, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote: > You need huge amounts of spam to train spamassassin, but it does > indeed work. After a bout of spam making it through, I trained it > against my 4000 spams collected over time (most of them categorised > as such by spamassassin itself), and then received no uncaught spam > for a while. Many thanks to all who replied. Hmmm. Should I be _saving_ all of my spam, and then telling SpamAssassin to go learn it after I have accumulated a ton of it?? I have been deleting it as I go along (after telling KMail to "Filter Classify As Spam"). I have KMail set to automatically move all spam, including the inbox stuff that I manually mark as spam, into a spam folder. But I have been religiously cleaning out the spam folder thereafter. In other words, I tell it to "learn" it, then I go to the spam folder and just trash it. Is this behaviour wrong? I used to use the spam filtering in Thunderbird (I believe) in that fashion, and it seemed much quicker to learn. I get the feeling that I may have things set up so that I am fighting myself. Should I be _collecting_ spam instead? Hugh