[ Modified the subject, as I originally forgot a topic. ]
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 17:19, Matt Kettler wrote:
> At 08:53 AM 10/17/2003, guenther wrote:
>
> >I just wondered about redirecting mail to learn as Spam, as mentioned in
> >FAQ 5.1.
> >
> >This will add extra headers (especially Received headers).
> >Won't these headers poison the Bayesian database?
>
> This varies a lot from mail client to mail client. With some mail clients,
> the redirect is almost more of a re-queue of the original message with a
> new SMTP envelope... In 5.1 Justin is speaking specifically about outlooks
> resend ability.
>
> Others mail clients (such as my own) do it more like a forward.
>
> That's why FAQ 5.3 exists, to emphasize that is kind of thing is really not
> as easy as it may first seem, but with some MUA's it may be possible.
By a quick look Evolution leaves the entire untouched when Redirecting
-- without maybe the first X-Original-To: and stuff. I will check this
further.
Would this be safe? What about the additional Received: headers?
Especially in the context of AWL.
> And now that I look at it, FAQ 5.3 and FAQ 5.1 really should be merged into
> one.. maybe I'll ping justin on that at some point.
>
> Thus far I can only account for Eudora, where it's absolutely impossible as
> the client will immediately discard any text sections of a
> multipart/alternative message as soon as you download it, making good
> learning impossible even if you could get forwarding with no header
> modifications.
Uh, ok. I will check this with Evolution as well, thanks.
So the safest approach probably will be forwarding the mail, having the
entire messages/rfc822 attached.
...guenther
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