Re: [Bmf-user] I don't get it... why use SPAM-Assassin??

[Richard H. C. <hch...@3g...>]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Tim Uckun wrote:

> >I've been thinking about applying a mixture of the two. I want to run
> >SpamAssassin for all users using the results to train bmf. After they've
> >received a certain threshold limit of messages (500, 1000, more?), the
> >system would automagically switch them over to bmf. This reduces the
>
> Why would you switch the users over to BMF when spamassassin already has a
> bayesian filter?

I wasn't aware that SpamAssassin has a bayesian filter. I've never used
it. I had a bit of difficulty about 6 months ago when I tried and gave up
due to lack of time.

> >later. Second, for pop users, I'm planning on having them forward mistaken
> >e-mails to sp...@th... or no...@th.... These
> >addresses would use their from address to either a retrain bmf immediately
> >for them or just drop the messages into those users' spam and notspam
> >folders. Third, I'm looking into the possibility of a configurable outlook
>
> This seems like a good idea but like I said it did not work so well for me.
> Mainly because when you forward the mail you change the from address and
> not all the headers are the same as the original spam.

I was thinking of chopping the e-mails at the "---Forwarded Message
follows---" or similar line. The only problem with this is you lose
almost all of the original headers. I had thought about having users
forward e-mails as MIME attachments as I thought the headers might be
preserved.

> >add-on to allow them to just select mistaken e-mails and hit a toolbar
> >button to forward them or save them. I believe this toolbar add-on
> >approach is what's missing in the wide adoption of bmf style spam
> >filtering.
>
> I believe that there are some commercial add ons that do this. What I am
> waiting for is the next version of mozilla which will have this feature in
> the email client.

That would be excellent. However, most of my users use Outlook and that
can't be changed. I'll look for some of those add-ons and if see if I can
use them.

R.

-- 
Harvey Chapman
3gfp Consulting