Learn Spam the easy way.

[Steen, Glenn]

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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Marcel Blenkers
> Sent: den 26 januari 2005 16:48
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: OT: Learn Spam the easy way.
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> currently i am the admin of a system, on which the users do 
> receive mails
> locally, but do not have any kind of shell..
> 
> As they are receiving mails considered as spam, they would 
> like to teach
> spamassassin those mails as spam.
> 
> But, outlook is not capable of bouncing those mails, so they 
> just forwared
> these mails to my account..but this is not really a lot of help.
> 
> So..i am thinking of a way to get those users to learn 
> spamassassin which
> mail is spam and which is not.
Provide them with a folder on your server to dump things to, perhaps via
IMAP. Shouldn't be hard after that.

> 
> Never seen MailWatch, but is it capable to learn mails, which 
> are already
> at the maschine of the user (fetched via pop3)?
Not really, you'd need store the messages in the "nonspam" quarantine
for that to be available.


> 
> Or should i get them switch over to imap, create a box called 
> spam, they
> dp copy the spam-mails into this box, and i do have a cronjob learning
> those boxes?
Yep.

-- Glenn
> 
> Maybe someone has some ideas?
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Marcel
> 
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