[Bug 3697] New: spam filter improvement

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http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3697

           Summary: spam filter improvement
           Product: Spamassassin
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P5
         Component: spamassassin
        AssignedTo: spamassassin-dev@incubator.apache.org
        ReportedBy: mal-dns@gromco.com


Currently spamassasin filter checks only the content of e-mail itself 
to determine whether the message is a spam.
Most of spam messages have some kind of links (often masqueraded one way or
another).

I propose to add an option to actually follow these 
links and analyse the content of web pages obtained from them 
on a subject of spam.

This way it would be much harder to hide actual 
spam content form filter.

Also additional content would make spam filter much more accurate.

In terms of security - I think this is not a big issue.
Spammers already know what SMTP server received an e-mail,
and mail server with spamassasin  just follows web links in all accepted e-mails.
Nothing personal goes out.

I am not sure this option is ready for everyone,
but I think it worth using for some people.



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