Hello Ram, Saturday, February 5, 2005, 6:15:07 AM, you wrote:
R> my email server uses spamassassin. is there any way i can 'clean' all the R> tags from an assasinated email and recover the original message? many R> genuine mails have been getting assasinated and it becomes really difficult R> to read them.. esp when they have html content. If your server has done this correctly, the original email, unchanged, is an attachment to the email you receive with the spam notification. You should be able to open that attachment using the normal method within your email program, and you should then be able to view that email. R> and how do i figure out what version of spamassassin my server is equipped R> with? is there any way of knowing just by looking at an assassinated mail? Check the email headers in any email. It should contain something like > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-12.0 required=5.0 > tests=BAYES_00,NO_REAL_NAME,SP_HAM_EXTREME autolearn=ham version=3.0.1 That last element is the SpamAssassin version. If you're getting a very large number of false positives, then there's a problem in your server's installation. Either they have scores out of whack, or a confused Bayes database. If the false positives (non-spam flagged as spam) are from specific and consistent senders (such as mailing lists or newsletters), you may be able to whitelist those sources. Otherwise you'll need to work with your server to help them fix their problem. Bob Menschel
