Bogofilter hand forwarded e-mails ??

[Michael Gale]

Hello,

	Thanks for the reply ... the virtual accounts are on the same system as 
bogofilter ... so I will just add a button to reclassify the message 
before forwarding it :)

Michael.



David Relson wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:00:29 -0700
> Michael Gale wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>	I have been using bogofilter for some time now and it has been
> 
> create. 
> 
>>One question I have is does asking bogofilter to traning from
> 
> forwarded 
> 
>>e-mail work ??
>>
>>	We have a virtual account set up for every user and any mail
> 
> bogofilter 
> 
>>detects as SPAM gets sent there. If the user logs in via a web
> 
> interface 
> 
>>they can forward the message to there main account.
>>
>> From the main account they can drag the message to a public folder 
>>called NOTSPAM. Where the messages are passed to bogofilter to be 
>>trained as NOTSPAM.
>>
>>Will the fact that these messages have been forward cause a issue ?
>>
>>Thanks ..
> 
> 
> Hello Michael,
> 
> You're right to sense a possible problem.  Plain ol' forwarding adds
> headers for your domain, which isn't good because you want bogofilter to
> see the headers of the original message.  On the other hand, if the
> messages are forwarded as attachments you can get good results.  What
> you want is a script that will extract the original message so it can
> then be used for training.  In bogofilter's contrib directory
> are two perl scripts:  mime.get.rfc822 and bfproxy.  Give them a
> test and see if they're what you need.  If not, feel free to
> cut/paste/enhance.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> David
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