Re: Zoe not fetching reclassified mesages from Popfile

Hi,

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 04:31:26 +0000 (UTC) Julian Eade <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm using Zoe 0.61 with Popfile v22.1 - using X-Text Classification to flag 
> spam. It works fine except that Zoe is not fetching messages that 
> Popfile originally classified as Spam, that I've reclassified as ham 
> in Popfile. As I'm using Zoe to fetch from Popfile and Opera M2 to fetch
>  from Zoe, I'm losing those reclassified messages completely.

Never used Popfile and new to Zoe myself, but here's what I know. Mail
filtering software like POPFile doesn't hold any mail itself. It serves
as a middleman between your mail server and client, and inserts header
information into the messages it processes.

ZOE relies on such header information (as defined in
SpamHeader.properties) to decide what to classify as spam. The decision
is done when ZOE retrieves mail, and mail categorized as spam never
enters ZOE's mail database.

When you reclassify a message in Popfile, you're only giving it an
instruction that "this message should not be treated as spam", so it'll
do a better job next time. Since Popfile doesn't have a mail database,
it doesn't really "relabel" any message, and certain doesn't send any
message to Zoe.

I don't know how you can tell Zoe to re-retrieve a message. What I do
is to set up my email client (Opera in your case) to retrieve mail from
your server directly, so it'll get the spam. When I see a mis-treated
message, in addition to reclassifying it in Spampal (Popfile for you),
I also export the message to a text file (mbox or eml), edit out the
spam info in the header with a text editor, re-import it from the text
file, and then re-send the message to Zoe. I would love to know if
there's an easier way.

-- 
Best regards,
Ming-Li




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