Kevin Roberts wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am new to the forum so forgive me if I ask a question that has been > answered before. > > I am currently using the sa-learn system by forwarding a spam message that > makes it through spamassassin to a spam only mailbox. I do the same with > ham as well. My question is the any problem with doing this in relation to > the way spamassassin sees the message. Naturally the person forwarding the > message is not the origianl sender and all forwarding headers should be > disregarded and only the original message should be learned as spam and ham. > > I am using a Windows XP Pro server for running SA. All is working fine, I > am just wanting to make sure that I am not teaching SA to recognize the > forwarder info as the original spammer info.
Yeah, the forwarding method would cause problems with this, as you suspect. sa-learn will automatically remove SA headers, but none others. I suppose ideally, you would simply have flagged mail processed directly to the desired mailbox, instead of forwarding the mail with your mailing program. For instance, I use Procmail on my Unix account. One can simply tell Procmail to deliver the flagged mail to whatever mailbox or folder one wants -- as long as one has write rights to the mailbox, or folder. Then I manually feed it to sa-learn. If you have write rights to the mailboxes in question, you can probably do the same thing with your MTA/mail processing routines. But, of course, if you're trying to have auto-learning kick in with the method you describe -- the implication being you're using the MTA/processing routines to trigger processing to sa-learn -- doing a straight copy to the mailbox folder won't work. I assume this is not what you're doing however, because then, what would be the point in forwarding it, when you could just as well have the original target mailbox processing do the auto-learning. Oh yeah, you may be able to use your mail processing routines to remove the forward header informaiton. That'd be another approach -- upon reception to the ham/spam mailbox, massage the mail back to its original state. As mentioned, you could leave the SA header info, as sa-learn will remove it for you. If I've misunderstood anything, please feel free to follow up. There are plenty of people here who know more about this than I. This is also a recurring topic on this list -- you may want to search on 'forwarding' or some such. Bryan > Thanks for the insight. > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click -- That's why my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin. - (Soren Kierkegaard - Either/Or) http://www.wecs.com/content.htm This signature file is generated by Pick-a-Tag ! Written by Jeroen van Vaarsel http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=pick-a-tag ------------------------------------------------------- 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_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
