SpamAssassin support added

SpamAssassin support added

[Ted Zlatanov]

Thanks to Hubert Chan, SA is now supported as a separate backend.  I
comitted his patch to CVS.  Thank you!

Ted

Re: SpamAssassin support added

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:

> Thanks to Hubert Chan, SA is now supported as a separate backend.  I
> comitted his patch to CVS.  Thank you!

What's in this patch?  Can it report to SpamAssassin's bayesian
filter, via email?  Or does it just support SpamAssassin running
locally? 

Thanx!


- Steinar

Re: SpamAssassin support added

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, sb@dod.no wrote:

>>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
> 
>> Thanks to Hubert Chan, SA is now supported as a separate backend.
>> I comitted his patch to CVS.  Thank you!
> 
> What's in this patch?

See the ChangeLog.  Basically spam-use-spamassassin,
spam-use-spamassassin-headers, and all the related support functions
and variables.  You can customize the spam-spamassassin variable
group.

> Can it report to SpamAssassin's bayesian filter, via email?  Or does
> it just support SpamAssassin running locally?

I think you can use spamc instead of sa-learn.  Hubert said it's
possible in the doc string for the SA executable.  I have not done it,
so I can't verify.

Ted

Re: SpamAssassin support added

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:

>> Can it report to SpamAssassin's bayesian filter, via email?  Or
>> does it just support SpamAssassin running locally?

> I think you can use spamc instead of sa-learn.  Hubert said it's
> possible in the doc string for the SA executable.  I have not done
> it, so I can't verify.

Hm... from the doc string, it looks like spamc is something that
communicates with a spamd?  What I would like to do, is to do a resend
of the email to an email address.

Is this possible?

Thanx!


- Steinar

Re: SpamAssassin support added

[John Owens]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

> Hm... from the doc string, it looks like spamc is something that
> communicates with a spamd?  What I would like to do, is to do a resend
> of the email to an email address.

I second this - I reach inside the SpamAssassin-wrapped message to
pull out the original message and then send it to spamcop and
uce@ftc.gov. Spamcop, at least, is happy with a message from me; the
contents of the message are simply the whole spam message including
headers. 

JDO

Re: SpamAssassin support added

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, jowens@ucdavis.edu wrote:

> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
> 
>> Hm... from the doc string, it looks like spamc is something that
>> communicates with a spamd?  What I would like to do, is to do a
>> resend of the email to an email address.
> 
> I second this - I reach inside the SpamAssassin-wrapped message to
> pull out the original message and then send it to spamcop and
> uce@ftc.gov. Spamcop, at least, is happy with a message from me; the
> contents of the message are simply the whole spam message including
> headers. 

I think you want something like the Gmane support in spam-report.el.

I don't use the SA wrapping myself, so I haven't had this problem.
Maybe it should be automatically detected by the spam-report function
and the message should be unwrapped before sending to an address.

Ted

Re: SpamAssassin support added

[John Owens]

Ted Zlatanov writes:
    On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, jowens@ucdavis.edu wrote:
    > I second this - I reach inside the SpamAssassin-wrapped message to
    > pull out the original message and then send it to spamcop and
    > uce@ftc.gov. Spamcop, at least, is happy with a message from me; the
    > contents of the message are simply the whole spam message including
    > headers. 
    
    I think you want something like the Gmane support in spam-report.el.
    
I'll take a look.

    I don't use the SA wrapping myself, so I haven't had this problem.
    Maybe it should be automatically detected by the spam-report function
    and the message should be unwrapped before sending to an address.
    
I think it's a fairly common situation that people don't have control
over what happens upstream - mine get wrapped by another mail server
that I don't have access to and then forwarded to me. 

I think I actually prefer the wrapping, since then I get the virgin
message without any SpamAssassin-applied additional headers. Thus if
spam-report.el unwrapped it for me and could send it along, that would
be ideal.

JDO

Re: SpamAssassin support added

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, jowens@ece.ucdavis.edu wrote:

> I think I actually prefer the wrapping, since then I get the virgin
> message without any SpamAssassin-applied additional headers. Thus if
> spam-report.el unwrapped it for me and could send it along, that
> would be ideal.

I agree.  If you or someone else want to write the functionality
(closely related to what Andy Cohen and Jesper Harder are doing with
spam-wash.el) that would be great, and I'll put it into
spam-report.el.  Otherwise, I'll put it on my list for when I have
the time :)

Ted