----- Original Message ----- From: "Stewart, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Stuart Gall'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Per Björklund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:09 AM Subject: RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn on messages from outlook/exchange
> > > > I was wondering if it could be possible to get sa-learn to > > just look at the message text > > > and ignore all header information when I feed it with > > messages from exchange (since exchange screws everything up). > > > > > > That way all users on the exchange-system could just > > forward their emails to a spambox or a public folder which > > sa-learn then learns from (through imap or whatever). > > > > > > Shouldn't that be better than nothing? Or is it a bad idea? > > > I know I would loose valuable header information for bayes, > > but as it is now I'm not able to feed bayes at all from outlook.. > > > > > > > > > > You could get the users to "forward as attachment", then use > > mlh or something to extract the email before handing over to sa-learn. > > You want the headers! Bayes uses these. Forwarding will lose virtually all > the useful information. OK There is no point in having an oh yes it does oh no it dosent. I can say for sure that users of outlook express can preserve headers if they select "forward as attachment" from the message menu. I suspect that outlook is the same but I dont have it here to try I mailed you a sample. > > Use public folders; it mostly preserves the headers. But it works FINE!!! > I think public folders is a much better idea, simply because the user is far less likely to get it wrong They might dump other stuff in there, but that is easy to deal with just bin everyting that dosen't end .eml with a cron job. > One reason is Exchange is adding it's own crap to BOTH spam and ham. Thus > any tokens generated on this Exchange cruft won't get scored as either one. > But wont that be in the message they save in the public folder too ? Stuart Gall Systems Administrator ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Critical Error: REALITY.SYS Corrupted! Reboot universe? (y/n) [y]: ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
