Lee R. Copp wrote:
> Eric "Shubes" wrote:
>> Would forwarding distort the message since it would appear to be coming from
>> the recipient (forwarder) instead of the original sender? How would dspam
>> handle this?
> 
> Forwarding the message to a spam/ham training address will distort the
> message but dspam won't care.  When dspam is first run the message is
> scanned to create tags that all belong to a unique id.  The tags
> determine spam or ham and dspam marks it as such along with embedding
> the id in the header or body.  To train on a false-pos or false-neg
> dspam only really needs the id and the right command line switch.  So,
> it doesn't matter if you forward it as long as that id is in there.
> Each qmail-alias is set to run dspam with the 'oops, spam' or 'oops,
> ham' switch and dspam learns from its mistake.
> 
> To make things really slick only 1 qmail-alias is needed.  Simply scan
> the header for the prior dspam classification and pipe it back to dspam
> with the correct switch...;)

Sounds slick.

Is that one qmail-alias per server, domain, or user? (I'm not real clear on
the process yet)

Do I understand correctly that dspam also keeps track of ham/spam on a
per-user basis? In this manner, a piece of mail might be spam to one user
and ham to another (in the same domain)?

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

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