[NTLUG:Discuss] Mozilla spam filtering.

[Steve Baker]

I've been using the new Mozilla "Junk Mail Controls" feature that 'learns' what is SPAM
and what isn't.   I've been very impressed with this - after learning for a couple of weeks,
it seems to have an almost magical ability to distinguish the junk from the good stuff.  It
easily rejects a good 99% of SPAM - and after just a couple of weeks of training, I never see
a false positive.

Now, I'm about to give my son his first email account - and I'm quite concerned that he
doesn't get exposed to a lot of the crap (especially sick porno crap) that comes in via
email - and the Mozilla system seems just the thing.  Once you trust it to do a good job,
you can have it simply delete stuff without you ever having to see it.

However, the actual learning process isn't going to work for my kid because you actively
have to tag things as junk - and you can't do that without looking at them...at least until
the system has learned enough to work by itself.

What I'd like to do would be to transfer the 'learned' controls from my user account to
his...so as my copy of Mozilla learns, the necessary information gets passed to my son's
account.  That way, my 'judgement' as to what I don't want to read will automatically become
the criteria for discarding junk on my son's account too.

Does anyone know whether there is a file that holds that 'learned' data that I could maybe
copy across to his account using a cron job or something?

Any ideas?

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