Re: SpamAssassin & mutt
On 2004-01-17 18:49:11 -0500, Ken Weingold wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2004-01-17 17:38:37 -0500, Ken Weingold wrote:
> > > In your spamassassin's user_prefs, put:
> > >
> > > rewrite_subject 1
> > >
> > > subject_tag [ _HITS_ ]
> >
> > This is *very* bad.
>
> Why is that?
Lots of problems, for instance:
* ambiguous (someone may send a subject that looks like that,
e.g. when using the same method :);
* when replying / forwarding the message / ..., the subject gets
modified (and it isn't always possible to remove the tag and
again it would be ambiguous);
* not configurable (once the message is stored in the mailbox);
* takes place in the index (part of not being configurable) and
not always visible (in deep reply trees);
* bad alignment in the index (as the subjects are not aligned in
reply trees);
* obfuscates the reply trees in the index (since the subject is
no longer constant).
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