[FOLLOW-UP] End-user (not administrator) question

["Ricardo P. Jasinski" <ja...@cefetpr.br>]

Hi fellows,

thanks to everyone who bothered sharing their opinion on this matter. Loaded
with your suggestions, I called our administrator and kindly requested to be
added to the spam-lovers list. He just asked my motivations, wich I kindly
explained, and he quickly made the change.

Note: before having your directions, I had already called him and asked what
we could do to solve that problem, to which he replied that there was no
easy way of doing it.

So, thanks again!

Ricardo.

-----Mensagem original-----
De: Timothy Burt [mailto:salist@timburt.com] 
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 25 de maio de 2006 16:32
Para: Ricardo P. Jasinski
Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Assunto: Re: End-user (not administrator) question


Most certainly.  Ask to be put on the "Spam Lovers" list.

Spamassassin is (IMHO) the best tool for dealing with SPAM.  And the ability
to give any user the freedom to deal with SPAM in his own manner is good
evidence.

Enjoy!

--------------------
Timothy Burt
Los Angeles, Calif. USA

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Ricardo P. Jasinski wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> the system administrator in our university recently started using 
> spamassassin in our mail server. Unfortunately, I can't say this has 
> been a good thing for me and for many other users, and I'll try to explain
why.
>
> First, for each mail that the tool assumes to be a spam, I receive an 
> email with the original message as an attachment. Obviously, this way 
> my spam count could never decrease.
>
> Second, now I have no control over what I consider as a spam. What I 
> evaluate as spam is not the same as what my colleagues do. But now, we 
> are forced to living by the same rules.
>
> As a previous spambayes outlook plugin user, I was used to having 
> really good results on spam elimination and customization. My 
> immediate feeling is that the adoption of spamassassin has 
> tremendously worsened my spam-dealing routine. Since for every mail 
> that spamassassin considers a spam it generates new a message 
> describing the rules it used, spambayes has no way of sorting it by the
contents anymore.
>
> This is what upsets me: I (almost) was free from spam hell, now I'm 
> back at having to open manually all my messages, which are now hidden 
> inside attachments, and there is no way of improving or training my 
> spam detecting engine.
>
> I hope you understand that I am having a terrible experience with 
> spamassassin. Since my system administrator will not tell this to me, 
> I would like to know from you guys if there is a way of disabling 
> spamassassin for my individual mail address, and if this is an easy thing
to do.
>
> Thank you immensely for your replies. Also, I would like to receive 
> comments if you guys can think of any other way out of my situation. 
> Any solution that does not depend on the admin is more likely to work for
me, though.
>
> Ricardo.
>