[SA-exim] I missed it - true spam is accepted

[Odhiambo Washington]

* Peter N Lewis <peter@stairways.com.au> [20020729 09:38]: wrote:
> Do be very careful about rejecting email based on spamassassin (or 
> any other "educated guess" system).  Remember that spamassassin 
> absolutely *will* flag some non spam messages as spam.

Correct.

> The better method is to flag it as spam and then educate your users 
> in how to use their email filters to easily get rid of spam if they 
> want to.  And then educate your smarter users to filter the spam into 
> a mailbox and occasionally go through it to find any mislabeled 
> non-spam messages.

When most of your users use M$ Lookout then there is a problem - how do you
tell Outlook to see the "X-SPAM" header in it's filters?? I'd be grateful
if someone can enlighten me on that, because I don't want to rewrite the
Subject. The flagging does not help some users because they still receive
the mail.


> If you're considering rejecting spam for your users, first read Geoff 
> Duncan's recent TidBITS article, Email Filtering: Killing the Killer 
> App:
> 
> http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06866

I'll read that. However using SA (local_scan) does not leave any options
for the user.


-Wash

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