Headers in Public Folder

Desai, Jason jase at sensis.com
Fri Oct 20 19:08:44 IST 2006


> Hello -
> 
> I'm trying to figure out what is happening with the spam I have in
> Exchange 2003 public folders.
> 
> I've got quite a bit of spam in public folders, and when I right-click
> on any of them, and select OPTIONS, it seems to show all the original
> headers as normal, including the MailScanner headers, scoring, etc.
> 
> I've also have an IMAP account setup on my Outlook 2003 client. When I
> copy/move these messages to my Spam folder on this IMAP account, them
> look at the mbox file on the Fedora server it resides on, most of the
> headers are gone.
> 
> Now in previous discussions I've read that Exchange PF removes the
> headers, but here it sounds like IMAP is doing it, since the 
> headers are
> visible and look fine from the PF.
> 
> Is this going to affect sa-learn dramatically?
> 
> When I use spammassassin to run a test on the mbox messages, the SA
> score is dramatically different obviously because of the loss of
> headers.
> 
> Is there anyway to fix this?

You could configure MailScanner to quarantine all emails.  Then write a
script to pull the message id out of the header, then train spamassassin
with the real message from the quarantine.

Jase


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