understanding bogofilter

[Simon Huggins]

Salut Bogofilter!

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:52:22AM +0200, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:
> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:
> >>4. I want to setup an new mailbox called "spam" and have my users
> >>forward their spam to that address. Is it ok to forward mail or does it
> >>have to be bounced?
> >It's O.K., though forwarding will change the headers some.
> It would be crucial to have the headers forwarded. One idea
> might be to forward the mails as attachments so that only
> the attachment is given to bogofilter. The only question is
> if users can be trained to do that correctly.

Actually this is a very interesting point.  Perhaps there should a
switch to discard either the message and only take the attachment or to
discard attachments and only take the message when evaluating spam.

For instance Dan's false positives mail got filtered out by my
bogofilter because the attached mail looked like spam (it happened to
score spamicity=0.499997)

I believe (from reading this list) that bogofilter does MIME stuff.
Maybe I'll have a look and see how easy it would be to patch this
afternoon.

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