[yahoo.de] > I believe that spambayes has no functionality to search in attachmennts? > I send an attachment with spam content and i see in spam clue, that there is > no Token from the attachhment and the email is classified as ham!!!?
While some details depend in part on which version of SB you're using, and on some option settings, in general it's correct that SB has no interest in attachments. Remember that we're looking for spam here, and nothing other than spam. Text buried in an attachment isn't visible unless the user takes explicit action to look at it, so text buried in an attachment is worthless to spammers: they're trying to grab your attention (well, they're really trying to get your money ;-)), and no person with minimal knowledge of reality ever clicks on an attachment they weren't expecting. Instead, adding attachments would just increase the size of their spam, boosting the per-message cost of sending it, with no payback. Authors of viruses and Trojans (etc) have very different aims. They're not trying to sell you anything -- their audience is computer newbies still so naive that they'll open any attachment. While that's a major problem, it's not spam, and SB isn't aiming at that. Such attachments are typically binary (not textual) data anyway. Then there's rare Asian commercial spam that sometimes attaches a very large (like a megabyte) PDF catalog. I expect that's rare precisely because it's so much more expensive to send. It's telling that when I see one of those, I never see the same one again (newbie spammers can be awfully naive too ;-)). _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
