spam/notspam w/sa-learn

[Julian Field]

At 19:33 05/05/2003, you wrote:
>Hmm?  So then, by forwarding I would place my address in the spam/notspam
>mailboxes and be identified as such.
>Any ideas on how to "fool" the app so that it will work with Outlook or am
>I going to have to try to write some sort of script - if, in fact, that is
>possible.

If you stripped out all the headers (except for a processed Subject: line),
then removed all the leading ">" characters, I guess you could do it. It
wouldn't be perfect but it would be better than nothing.

>
>N
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: 5-May-03 2:22 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: spam/notspam w/sa-learn
>
>At 19:16 05/05/2003, you wrote:
>>Forgive my ignorance/stupidity on this subject but what do you mean by
>>redirect?
>
>Different mail apps call it different things, but it is usually bounce or
>redirect. It sends the message on with the headers intact, so that replies
>go back to the original sender and not the person who redirected it.
>
>Outlook and Outlook Express cannot do it.
>Why, I don't know, it's the simplest job in the book :-(
>
>>
>>Yes, the cron job is in place, just want to give my users CORRECT
>>instructions on using the "auto-learn" feature.
>>
>>N
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>>Sent: 5-May-03 2:07 PM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: spam/notspam w/sa-learn
>>
>>At 18:40 05/05/2003, you wrote:
>>>I just want to be clear on the usage of the spam and not spam accounts
>>>used in conjunction with the sa-learn script.
>>>
>>>I can have my users forward any message received to either spam (to have
>>>it identified as spam) or notspam (to have it identified as ham) and it will
>>>be automatcially learned (sa-learn)??
>>It is important that they "redirect" and not "forward" their mail to the
>>addresses, as forwarding will destroy the headers and make it appear that
>>your users are the spammers.
>>
>>>Is this correct?
>>You do, of course, need my cron job script to do the actual work,
>>mailboxes aren't magic :-)
>>
>>>I don't want my users showing up as spammers because they are listed as
>>>the forwarder.
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