[Mimedefang] Re: Spam/Ham Backup ?

John Rudd john at rudd.cc
Sun Jun 24 12:49:54 EDT 2007


Graham Murray wrote:
> Yizhar Hurwitz <yizhar at mail.com> writes:
> 
>> * Attaching the spamassasin report isn't a good idea for the ham/spam trap,
>> because it is dificult to remove it later for training.
>> It is better to add headers that have the wanted information instead -
>> that way it will not confuse the end user.
> 
> Not so. The sa-learn program used for training removes/ignores the
> markup (including the report) which spamassassin has added to the
> message. Also when using spamassassin --report, any spamassassin markup
> is removed before submitting the spam to spamcop, razor and pyzor.

I wonder, if I was a spammer, if I could write spam that looks like a 
spamassassin report section ... it would probably still get scored by 
SA, but it might get removed from learning or reporting.




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