Re: sa-learn and POP3 accounts

[John DeYoung]

On Oct 11, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Dan Horne wrote: I have a working SA install using Bayes.  My webmail users can "report spam" that makes it into their inboxes, and those .eml files get copied into a mailbox that gets regular scans by sa-learn.  No problem so far.   However most of my users are POP3 users.  I know that if they just forward false-negatives to a spam mailbox it can potentially confuse the Bayes db.  I've read that even forwarding as an attachment is no good.  Is there a solution available by which a POP3 user can report a message as spam by some means and get that message properly into Bayes?  we're in the same boat - our solution is to recommend that our users store copies of messages on the server for 1-7 days; then, when a message isn't caught, it's still sitting in their inbox, which they can noodle with via webmail. we run per-user, and use an IMAP folder for junkmail, so it's never seen by POP3 users, but it's always there via webmail.  it's probably pretty common, since i managed to think of it on my own... i suppose if you're running site-wide, you could have users redirect to whichever account you've set up to receive low-scored spam.  someone who knows more might point out some flaw in there somewhere, but it seems plausible to me, at least. best, -john. --  John DeYoung Tech Superpowers, Inc.