Thoughts on new Bayes idea

[Julian Field]

At 16:21 04/06/2004, you wrote:
>On Freitag, 4. Juni 2004 5:08 Max Kipness wrote:
>
> > My idea is to basically archive every email that enters the system
> > (through MS) for a period of a day or so. I've got a script that
> > deletes all emails older than a time specified from an mbox file.
> > Then using my script from above, have users forward the email to
> > spam at ourdomain.com <mailto:spam at ourdomain.com> , have a new script
> > fetch that email out of the archive and feed it to Bayes.
>
>I like it. Please share the scripts once you are ready. The only
>remaining problem would be that archiving mails in this manner might not
>be allowed by local law. But that is another story...

When Outlook forwards a message, what happens to the Message-ID? If it
screws that, you may have trouble finding a unique key for the messsage,
with the result that you can't find it in your archive.
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