Re: Yet another simple question - how to reprocess an email

2019-11-29 Thread RW
On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 08:21:39 -0500 Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: > >>> > > On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 22:12 -0500, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: > > So, I switched to getmail and these problems > > went away. Getmail worked just fine using the MDA script I wrote for > > fetchmail and its configuration file is

Re: Yet another simple question - how to reprocess an email

2019-11-29 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
>>> > On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 22:12 -0500, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: >> I use fetchmail on a different box to pull mail from several >> accounts at an ISP and send those messages to the SA/postfix box. >> > OK, more similar to my setup, then, than I'd guessed. > > FWIW I used to use fetchmail, but

Re: Yet another simple question - how to reprocess an email

2019-11-29 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 22:12 -0500, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: > I use fetchmail on a different box to pull mail from several > accounts at an ISP and send those messages to the SA/postfix box. > OK, more similar to my setup, then, than I'd guessed. FWIW I used to use fetchmail, but found bugs, such

Re: Yet another simple question - how to reprocess an email

2019-11-28 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
>>> >> On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 18:38 -0500, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: >> > > Is there any tangent down this path were I can get the dropped >>> > > "test" message to actually flow through, in "normal" fashion? >>> >>> > . . . >> My set up is a little odd in that my pipeline used getmail to

Re: Yet another simple question - how to reprocess an email

2019-11-28 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
>>> > On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 18:38 -0500, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: > >> > > Is there any tangent down this path were I can get the dropped >> > > "test" message to actually flow through, in "normal" fashion? >> >> > From logs I can see that spamd does seem to give the message a >> > taste, as

Re: Yet another simple question - how to reprocess an email

2019-11-28 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 18:38 -0500, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: > > > Is there any tangent down this path were I can get the dropped > > > "test" message to actually flow through, in "normal" fashion? > > > From logs I can see that spamd does seem to give the message a > > taste, as I can follow

Re: Yet another simple question - how to reprocess an email

2019-11-28 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 22:34 +, RW wrote: > A lot of us rely on SA stipping X-Spam-* headers, so header-based > filtering into a spam folder works correctly. This includes numerous > mail hosting and freemail providers. > Interesting: I've just rechecked this using your last message in this

Re: Yet another simple question - how to reprocess an email

2019-11-28 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
>>> >> On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 11:56 -0500, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: I want to be able to reprocess a particular email, marked as SPAM, >>> after making some SA tweaks. >>> >> I do something similar with with collection of test messages, mostly >> received spam, that I use to test my local SA

Re: Yet another simple question - how to reprocess an email

2019-11-28 Thread RW
On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 21:32:29 + Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 21:00 +, RW wrote: > > > There shouldn't be any need for this as SA strips such headers > > itself. > Yes, I've seem that said several times, BUT every time I capture some > spam from Evolution by using

Re: Yet another simple question - how to reprocess an email

2019-11-28 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 21:00 +, RW wrote: > There shouldn't be any need for this as SA strips such headers itself. > Yes, I've seem that said several times, BUT every time I capture some spam from Evolution by using "File:Save as mbox" to capture it as a .txt file and then feed it into SA as I

Re: Yet another simple question - how to reprocess an email

2019-11-28 Thread RW
On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 17:42:34 + Martin Gregorie wrote: > I do something similar with with collection of test messages, mostly > received spam, that I use to test my local SA rule set. > > Essentially, all I do is: > > 1) remove all headers starting with 'X-Spam', otherwise the X-Spam >

Re: Yet another simple question - how to reprocess an email

2019-11-28 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
>>> > On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 11:56 -0500, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: >> I want to be able to reprocess a particular email, marked as SPAM, >> after making some SA tweaks. >> > I do something similar with with collection of test messages, mostly > received spam, that I use to test my local SA rule

Re: Yet another simple question - how to reprocess an email

2019-11-28 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 11:56 -0500, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: > I want to be able to reprocess a particular email, marked as SPAM, > after making some SA tweaks. > I do something similar with with collection of test messages, mostly received spam, that I use to test my local SA rule set.

Yet another simple question - how to reprocess an email

2019-11-28 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
Well, here goes, asbestos pants on. I did, honest, do some searching before asking this. I want to be able to reprocess a particular email, marked as SPAM, after making some SA tweaks. Basically I have saved the email, which was received as an attachment, as a text file. Thinking to