Re: Testing the new SA version

[Richard Ozer]

That's not quite accurate.  It's outlook and outlook express that munge the 
headers.  If you create folders in exchange and, using Outlook (or Outlook 
Express with IMAP), drag the messages into them (rather than copy or forward 
them), the headers will remain intact. You can then use IMAP to retrieve 
them for sa-learn.

RO
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bowie Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 7:31 AM
Subject: RE: Testing the new SA version


From: Geoff Manning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In trying to invoke SA from the command line on each server to test
against a folder of emails I am running into a problem. I would like to
test one server against emails that have already been scored by the
upgraded server.  Problem is getting the emails back onto the linux box
complete with headers.  I am in an Exchange environment and I've been
cutting and pasting the headers and body into a text file. Is there a
better way out there?
Once the emails get to Exchange, they're pretty well munged.  There's no
good way to get them back.  Even the method you are using will have
different headers than the original.
If you want to create a corpus of mail to test against, I would suggest
creating a folder on your server where you can keep copies of all the 
email.
That way you don't have to worry about Exchange, you can just go back to 
the
Linux server to get the messages.

I do something similar to this for bayes training on some of our email
addresses.  I have the emails sorted into ham and spam folders on the 
server
and also delivered to the Exchange server.  That way the users can read
their mail with Outlook and I can go back to the server to double-check 
and
sa-learn the spam and ham.

Bowie