Re: How to ignore spam tags?

Zoe <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Niklas,
>
> On Apr 29, 2004, at 15:22, Niklas Morberg wrote:
>
>> It seems that my entry for X-Spam-Flag in
>> SpamHeader.properties is not used to replace the existing
>> config, but rather adds to it:
>
> Ooops... yep... it appears that there is no way to totally
> overwrite the default filters... sigh :/
>
> If this is a show stopper for you,

Unfortunately, it is.

> your best bet is to comment out line 1793 in
> alt.dev.szmail.SZMail.MailFilter.java, recompile that file
> and add it as a patch to your installation.

Thanks, I'll have a look.

> More generally, should the application provide default spam
> filter values or not?

Well, for my case the answer is no (unless it's possible to
override them).

I think that it is generally a bad idea to have hard coded
parameters in applications. It is much better to keep that
as user configurable options. Those options might be set by
default, that doesn't really matter.

Niklas



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