Mail Scanner and Spam Assassin report generatio n

[Julian Field]

At 14:48 29/03/2004, you wrote:
> >>>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?
> >
> >But if you put the report in the message then you can't feed it back into
> >the Bayes engine in SpamAssassin. Do you really want that? You won't be
> >able to manually teach SpamAssassin about any messages as you will have
> >changed the message a lot.
> >
> >If you really are happy with that, let me know.
>
>Since my Spam Actions are "attach deliver", my sa-learn script already has
>to pull the attachment out of the forwarded email, so adding the spam
>assassin report to the message will not hurt my manual spam training and
>would probably be of interest to the recipients.  Maybe you could make it
>available as a variable to use in the report file, like $from and $subject
>is used now?

Would you like it just as another variable for the "attachment" template?
That would be the easiest for me to do, and wouldn't involve any
configuration additions for anyone.
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Julian Field
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