Mail Scanner and Spam Assassin report generation

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Gib Gilbertson Jr. [mailto:gib at TMISNET.COM]
>Envoyé : 27 mars, 2004 08:33
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: Mail Scanner and Spam Assassin report generation
>
>
>At 12:00 PM 3/27/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>>At 22:40 26/03/2004, you wrote:
>>>  At 12:52 PM 3/26/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>>>>Thanks for the suggestion.  I don't know if I can risk 
>making that large
>>>>of a change on this box though.  It processes around 
>110,000 messages a
>>>>day currently and they would kill me if there was any 
>issues where it
>>>>effected their current mail flow reliability.  And mixing up mail
>>>>processing to achive that at the moment wories me.
>>>>
>>>>All I need to do is pass the report argument that Spam 
>Assassin gives when
>>>>it runs into the forwarded message.
>>>>
>>>>Another reason ws need the failure report in the body of 
>the message is
>>>>because outlook here does NOT forward message headers when 
>you forward the
>>>>message.  So if a users gets a message that failed the Spam Assassin
>>>>rules, they can't forward the message to a help desk.  Since all the
>>>>usefull headers are gone then.
>>>
>>>----
>>>I tend to agree it would be nice to have the option to put the spam
>>>assassin report in the body of the message. I have lots of 
>accounts using
>>>Outlook or Outlook Express and explaining how to get the 
>headers for a
>>>message can be a real pain with some of them. For analytical 
>purposes it
>>>would be nice to have the report in the body of the message, 
>or added to
>>>the subject line of any mail that is tagged as spam?
>>
>>This would seriously affect performance, as more IO would 
>need to be done
>>on every message.
>What about the option to add it to the subject line in 
>addition to the tag
>that is now added to the subject line?

The performance effect will certainly still be there and you'll get a subject line of sometimes several hundreds of characters long.  I think that can crash some mail clients.

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