On Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:10 pm, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 11:32 AM 12/10/2003, Larry Starr wrote: > >My question regards scripts to ease processing of these mailboxes. Since > > the messages are forwarded, from several different Email clients > > (netscape, kmail, pine, AppleMail, etc), extracting the original message, > > for sa-learn is proving to be non-trivial. > > In many cases, it's not only non-trivial, it's impossible. Most MUA's > re-encode, strip down the headers, etc, etc when forwarding. Unless your > users are careful, reconstruction is going to be impossible, as some of the > data has been removed. > > >Does anyone, on the list, have or know of a tool that will reliably > >extract an > >original messaged from a forwarded message? > > I'm unsure if one is even possible. Matt,
Thank you for your reply. The more that I look at the problem, the more that I believe you are correct, that extracting the original message is not a solveable problem. I'm running mimedefang/spamassassin 2.60 on a mail gateway, with no local users. My current "workaround" is to "quarantine" everything coming from outside my domain, thus saving a copy of the original message, which I can extract and feed to sa-learn, by searching for the "Subject" in my mimedefang logs. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, adding all of my normal mail to the quarantine only increases my quarantine directory usage by about 20-25%. From here I guess I'll develop a few scripts to automate the process, unless someone has a better idea? My current "workaround" is to -- Larry G. Starr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Engineer: Full Compass Systems LTD. Phone: 608-831-7330 x 1347 FAX: 608-831-6330 =================================================================== There are only three sports: bullfighting, mountaineering and motor racing, all the rest are merely games! - Ernest Hemmingway ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id78&alloc_id371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
