[Mimedefang] HTML mail

[Lucas Albers]

Learn it before you strip or clean the html.
You can configure mimedefang to run bayes on it before the message hits
filter-end, where hte html stripping and cleaning is done.
That is what I do.

--Luke

> For legitimate mail, I agree. Unfortunately, I've been receiving a lot of
> spam
> recently where the spam is in the HTML part and the plaintext part has an
> innocuous poem (different with each piece). If I strip the HTML, then the
> spam
> indicators disappear before I have a chance to submit the whole thing to
> Bayes. (I keep an "Uncaught" folder to drop my false negatives into, and a
> cron job runs sa-learn against it nightly.)
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