On 7/29/08, Ville Walveranta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Robert Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Can't they add "X-Spam: yes"? For a paid service they're offering you >> remarkably little options. > > I'm requesting that change as it would positively identify the spam > messages. They generally seem to buffer the spam on their side and > allow users to access the spam folder though a web interface. However, > some less technical users find it easier to go looking for messages > that have been potentially mistagged as spam in a "Spam" folder in > Outlook rather than by logging to the web interface.
Your "less technical" users are right, it takes less time to look in a spam folder than it is to open a browser window and navigate to the web interface. I would have found it irritating in a very short time and some users would even given up on the task after a while. Unfortunately I've known users who never check their spam folder, so the spam db gets poisoned over time. I hope your has some workaround for that. >> Next question, why add it? If all your spam is coming from one source, >> you can just filter on that or have the util that retrieves the spam >> dump it straight into a spam folder. > > Yeah, spam dump would be an option, but it would be more like a digest > that I would then have to parse and place in the Spam folder, so it > would involve work as well. There are scripts on the Net for splitting digests and you can also use a script to turn it into a mbox mail file. > Going that route there would also be a > delay with the arrival of the messages tagged as spam. If someone is > expecting an email which erroneously gets tagged as spam, at least > they will now have access to it immediately. Okay. > The only downside with this setup is, I suppose, that if someone sends > a message with a subject beginning "**SPAM**" it will erroneously go > into the spam folder. But then, if someone sends such a message in > this Age of Spam, perhaps their email deserves to end up in the spam > folder ;-). I've received legitimate mail with "**SPAM**" in the subject line and it wasn't due to software on my side. I've even seen mail on a mailing list were a clueless newbie quoted the entire message body in his mail and every time it went through his spam filter another "**SPAM**" was added to the subject line. Ouch! It might help if you check for something in front of it like "Re", but "Re" is English and if you receive mail from Europe it can land up becoming something else. -- Robert Spencer
