http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4423
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-06-22 13:59 ------- That is incredibly easy to say. If the mail system were open source that would also be easy. Unfortunately, this is the way Groupwise gives us these messages. GroupWise. By the way, GroupWise has an install base of around 35 million (see http://www.blisscorp.com/research/GroupWiseandExchangeInstallbaseAnalysis.pdf). It is second only behind Microsoft Exchange. Unfortunately, it is not open source (but it is put out by Novell, to whom the open source community is beginning to owe a big debt). The long and the short of it is that SpamAssassin is a tool used by millions of people to block spam. GroupWise customers are a large group of people who are also using SA to deal with spam. The reason why mbox support is in SpamAssassin is that a large group of people probably needed that support. All I'm asking for is the same consideration. If the answer is no then that is fine. Just saying it doesn't match the RFCs and so should never be considered worthy of "inclusion" is kind of like being told by your parents "Because I told you so". It is ultimately a unsatisfying answer. The long and the short of it is that this was just a cry for help. A request for "inclusion" if you will. It was also a request to have things work the way the did .01 revisions ago. In "the real world" people don't "break" their software in this fashion and expect the "customer" to just say "That's OK. I'm sure there is a really good reason why you broke the way I was using the software." It is of course the perogative of the SA community to do this. It is my perogitive as a SA "customer" to squeel like a pig when they do ;-). Luckily it is also my perogative to change the source code and publish the information so 35 million installed users of GW can make SA (a great system by the way) work for them. Yours Humbly, Mike ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.
