Re: [cobalt-users] SpamAssassin forwarding mailbox [SCANNED]

["Dave's List Addy" <listonly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/9/04 11:05 AM, "Jeff Lasman" wrote:

> 
>> SpamAssassin uses the header information
>> as part of it's criteria.  We were hoping someone had made a script
>> that would strip out that extra header information from the mal and
>> then run the SpamAssassin command.  There is a sample one on the
>> SpamAssassin site, but it doesn't work very well.
> 
> If you use procmail instead of forwarding there won't be any extra stuff
> added to the headers to strip out.
> 
> As long as you're staying on the same server this will work fine.  If
> you're not staying on the same server then once a day zip up the
> mailbox and move it the box you need it on, and unzip it there.
> 
> That script would be so simple even we could do it <smile>.

I think the problem he is running into is that spamassassin will allow users
to submit what they consider spam or non-spam, there by creating 2
mailboxes, and letting Bayes auto-learn from that, If I am not mistaken.

The problem is as we all know, headers get munged when they are forwarded to
a new box. The script they show at SA is a little rough, and while your idea
is good Jeff, it still wouldn't address the users trying to submit there
spam/non-spam emails and not alter the header which is a large part of what
SA will learn from.

But then again I could be or usually am wrong...
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David Thurman
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