Thanks,
That should work fine.
Shane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kris Deugau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@spamassassin.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: SA auto-learn question
> Michael Barnes wrote:
> > What you are asking about is manual learning in the event of an
error
> > by SA.
> >
> > Unfortunately, once the mail gets to a user (depending on their
> > computer skills), its pretty much gone.
>
> *Especially* if they're using Outlook. Ugh. :(
>
> > What I mean, is that to feed the mails back to the bayes learning
> > process once it has gotten to the user is that the user somehow has
> > to get _the whole message, headers and all_ somewhere to be fed to
> > sa-learn.
> >
> > I work with pretty bright people, many are in graduate school for
> > computer oriented, but I would never ask for an original mail back
> > from one of them because it would be too difficult with the
multitude
> > of (usually broken) mail readers out there.
> >
> > Part of the email rfc (I guess 822, not sure if its actually in
> > another rfc) contains a feature called "resending a message" or
> > similar. My mailer, mutt, has this feature, and it describes it as:
> [snip]
>
> Pegasus Mail supports a "Bounce" feature that pretty much resends the
> message, including all existing headers and body content (MIME goop
and
> all). The major disadvantage of this is that it produces a message
with
> additional Received: headers, and depending on the email path other
bits
> of the message headers may get changed. :/
>
> > Unfortunetly, I have only heard of one other old obsolete mailer
> > that has this feature. I'm sure there are others, but its not too
> > common.
>
> *nix-based mailers are far more likely to have this than Windows-based
> ones.
>
> That said, I've asked (and asked, and asked, and PLEADED with) users
to
> forward mail as an attachment - which (from just about anything except
> Eudora and Outlook) gets me *exactly* the message the user receives.
> It's a little more work to untangle the attached message, but I've had
> *no* trouble feeding these into sa-learn.
>
> "Right-click, forward as attachment" works pretty well.
>
> -kgd
> --
> Get your mouse off of there! You don't know where that email has
been!
