On Wed 27 Apr 2016 at 20:31:17 +1200, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:57:08PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > Thanks for making me think of that and the fact that over the last 10 > > > years, the only ham its seen are its mistakes. So this question might > > > have had the seeds of something to help. :) > > > > My scripts copy all new non-spam to a ham directory which is fed to > > sa-learn every night and then the contents of both the ham and the > > spam directories are deleted. > > IIRC, it seems pointless feeding your mail through a spam filter > if you're downloading it from your ISP/email provider.
I think you are assuming the ISP provides a spam filtering service and you are happy to entrust the deletion of your mail to it.