Re: [Crm114-general] Using crm for classifying multiple categories

[Bill Y <ws...@me...>]

   From: Florian Lindner <mai...@xg...>

   I've the following configuration of my mail system.

   On my mailserver spamassassin checks for spam emails and marks
   them. The email is downloaded via POP3 to KMail (my MUA).  Now I
   want to pipe the email to crm and get it classified. I don't want
   to sort between spam and non-spam, that is done my spamassassin.  I
   just want to sort it in various different categories, like
   notification (from forums etc.), logwatch reports, ...

Florian: actually, in my tests CRM114 did significantly better than
SpamAssassin in terms of speed and overall error rate.

Of course, your results may well be different.  One thing we learned
from the TREC testing is that different corpora may flip the 
accuracy of two filters by an order of magnitude.

   The classification should be done by a statistical filter being
   trained by a number of positive and negative emails.  The
   mailreaver script seems to be made for just using two categories:
   spam and non-spam.

   Is there a filter script for classification info numerous
   categories? Or can this be done my mailreaver too?

MailReaver won't do it- it's strictly optimized for the issues of
cached mail.

However, if you download the manual, there is example code in the 
manual for a three-way sort and it's pretty obvious on how to do
N-way sorting.

(on the third hand, if you know where each of these things are coming
from, you can also do it just in Procmail...)

      - Bill Yerazunis