[luau] SpamAssassin and Exchange Webmail

[R. Scott Belford]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vince Hoang" <luau at ml.altern8.net>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] SpamAssassin and Exchange Webmail


> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 04:45:59PM -1000, Matthew John Darnell wrote:
> > We are on 2.55 and even if it is marked SPAM it doesn't add any
attachments,
> > just adds *******SPAM****** to the beginning of the subject.
>
> I believe recent versions of SA have report_safe enabled by
> default. One of the advantages is this approach prevents web
> bugs from loading in HTML-enabled mail. If the image loads, the
> spammer _knows_ you read the message.

Debian stable uses SpamAssassin 2.2  While not a recent version, it does
format the tagged mail so that I can read it at a later time even with an
html enabled reader.  The spam is not put into an attachment making its
sordid contents easy to look over.

--scott