Robert Bartlett wrote: > If someone forwards me email as a regular forward and not as an > attachment, could I still feed it to bayes as the user who forwarded > it to me and still be effective? Or will that cause problems because > the headers show as the person forwarding the email and not the > original headers? > > What I mean about username is the username switch in the sa-learn > function, If someone sent me email that should be marked as spam I > would feed it with their username instead of the default username, > which is root.
Yes, it will cause problems if you learn the forwarded message as-is. What you need to do is extract the attached email from the message (hopefully with the original headers intact), and feed it to SA as the user who originally received it. -- Bowie
