Headers in forwarding messages

[ro...@digitalphx.com]

Im sure this has been asked before, when someone forwards me a spam email
that has gotten through to their box and I want to feed it to bayes, could
this cause inaccurate results because of the additional headers added by
the forwarding? If so is there a setting in SA to resolve that issue?

Thanks
Robert

Re: Headers in forwarding messages

[Matt Kettler <mk...@comcast.net>]

At 10:17 AM 2/28/2005, robert@digitalphx.com wrote:
>Im sure this has been asked before, when someone forwards me a spam email
>that has gotten through to their box and I want to feed it to bayes, could
>this cause inaccurate results because of the additional headers added by
>the forwarding? If so is there a setting in SA to resolve that issue?

No, that would be impossible.. Forwarding doesn't just add one or two 
headers, for many headers it replaces them. Most mailclients also re-encode 
the body (ie: what was base64 encoded may no longer be... mime boundaries 
are different, etc), and some add text to the body.

The resulting message from a forward does not resemble the original, and 
cannot be reconstructed to match the original in any straightforward way.

Your best bet is to try to find a way to forward as an attachment, strip 
the attachment, and train that.