I think that programatically sending a copy of the message to
"not.spam" would be the best way to accomplish this task. This is
because it would allow the internals of JAMES (or the bayesian filter)
to change dramatically with no impact to your software. Just think of
it as a black-box API.
Of course, this will not return the same performance as would a more
tightly integrated solution, but you'll thank yourself if you ever
want to upgrade...
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on the JAMES internals, just an
interested observer.
Tom
On 2/5/07, Jerry M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just checking to see if this has already been done, or if someone can
offer a little technical advice....
Here's the situation....
1) I have my config set up such that if the Bayesian filter flags
spam, I route the message to a separate parallel inbox for the user
named "spam.<inboxname>". The intent here is to keep the flagged notes
available to the user to review, but not make the user download tons of
"probable spam" along with the good email. Setting up a 2nd inbox gives
the user control for separate handling of spam as they choose. They can
download from this inbox as well, or they can ignore it and leave it on
the server. (I have a pruner task that runs periodically and cleans out
old spam from the spam mailboxes).
2) I have a servlet that will let them see their list of spam in
this spam inbox via a web page ( I'm not using POP or anything... I'm
simply querying the inbox table for matching records from their spam inbox).
3) If they find a mis-flagged note that is not spam, they simply
click a button on the note and I move the note back to their regular
inbox to be downloaded.
OK, all of that works fine... But if a note is incorrectly flagged as
spam, I need to pass this knowledge to the Bayesian filter. I know the
documented way to do this is to wait till it downloads, then send it as
an attachment to [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc., etc. But that takes additional
work on the user's part and/or my part and is a pain I'd like to avoid.
The fact is, I knew when the user clicked the button that it was not
spam. However, at that point, I'm not in James. I'm simply using a
servlet to access the mail db. But I'd like to go ahead and notify the
Bayesian filter automatically at that point.
The brute-force way to do this inside the servlet is to read the message
record out of the database, construct an email from it and make it an
attachment on another email, set the address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and do a
sendmail to James. Maybe that's the best way to do it. If so, I can do
that. But I'm just curious if there are any easier ways where I can,
for example, just move the db record from the Inbox table to the spool
table and change the address to not.spam, or something like that.
Recommendations? Can someone that understands the inner workings of
James tell me if there are any simpler processes for a servlet to take a
note that's currently in the inbox and get the Bayesian feeder to
process it as either spam or not-spam?
BTW... I'm a very proficient Java programmer. So I can code just about
anything, as long as I understand the workings of the code I'm calling.
Thanks.
Jerry
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