ram wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Bowie Bailey <bowie_bai...@buc.com > <mailto:bowie_bai...@buc.com>> wrote: > > ram wrote: > > hi > > > > what i am looking is > > > > iam looking sitewide, not userwide > > > > so if the user feel its spam mail, he will send that mail to another > > email of local account, > > from there i want to choose the bayes learn and decide what is spam > > and what is not spam > > > > hope i explained well i feel > > Yes. Makes much more sense this time! :) > > You can do something similar to that, but if you do a normal forward, > you will generally lose the header information. There are two basic > ways to do it. > > 1) Have the user copy the emails to a local spam folder and then > have a > process that collects the mail from those folders and learns from > it on > a regular basis. This is easy to do if you are using IMAP or webmail > since everything is on the server. If you are using POP3, it gets > more > complicated since everyone's mail folder is on their own computer. > > 2) Have the user forward the mail as an attachment. This will usually > preserve the headers depending on the mail client. The downside > is that > you then have to extract the original mail from the attachment before > you can learn from it and you have to teach your users how to forward > mail as an attachment. > > > yes i do have different users > some use webmail and some use outlook and outlook exress > diffrent clients using pop3ssl > > iam not sure how can i ask user to send spam mail as attachment to > some u...@domain.com <mailto:u...@domain.com> > > if spammers know we are allowing u...@domain.com > <mailto:u...@domain.com> everything, they start filling with spam ? > > is this correct ?
How to send as an attachment depends on the client. If spammers start sending spam directly to that address, then you just get more spam to learn from. That sounds like an added bonus rather than a problem. -- Bowie
