> But the client is using POP3 to get the messages. There is no way to get
> the messages out from the client once they have downloaded them. If the
> client supported IMAP they could possible drag-and-drop them into the
public
> folder, but unfortunately the version of Goldmine doesn't support IMAP.
>
> I was just wondering what people were doing in this scenario. It looks
like
With some work on the server end, you could set up spam and ham receive mail
accounts, and have the user create an empty mail, include the spam/ham AS AN
ATTACHMENT, and then send that to the relevent drop box. The server would
then have to unwrap the attachments out of the received mails (rejecting any
witout an attachment) and process the attachments as the original spam/ham.
The whole trick here is sending the original mail as an attachment rather
than forwarding it. At least in OE and Outlook, this will preserve the
original headers. I've never heard of Goldmine, so it may or may not be as
well-behaved.
Note that Outlook also has 'shared folders'. I don't know if these are IMAP
or something else, but they could probably also be used as drop boxes.
Maybe Goldmine can also access this sort of thing.
A third possibility might be to modify the client configuration to leave the
mail on the server for a day or so rather than deleting it on download.
Then if the user had a way of indicating the mails he thought were spam/ham,
an automated process could hunt up the actual messages in the server mailbox
and process them from there. One way to do this would be to write a trivial
pop3 client that just listed the mails by subject line and let the user
click checkboxes for spam/ham on each item that he wanted someone to know
about.
Loren
