Re: SpamAssassin & mutt
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > 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).
Maybe we're seeing the results in a different way then. This only
adds this subject tag to email marked by SA as spam. And I have these
emails filtered to a spam folder. And with a simple command you can
strip out all the SA markup.
Anyway, it works for me. :)
-Ken