Re: Zoe not fetching reclassified mesages from Popfile

Hi Ming-Li,

On Nov 18, 2004, at 15:25, Ming-Li wrote:

> Well, I have to do this all the time. A headache, indeed, but also a
> necessity. How else can I read those Chinese messages falsely identify
> themselves as using iso-8859-1, instead of big5, for example?

Right... but this is your ongoing battle with malformed emails...

> Thanks to your new build, I could do that relatively easily with the
> "Source" link (+ rebuild, of course). The problem with messages falsely
> identified as spam, however, is that they don't even exist in Zoe's 
> mail
> database, so there's nothing I could remedy from within Zoe.
>
> Would it be feasible (easy to implement) for Zoe to keep spam
> temporarily, but doesn't show them, in the same way it deals with
> deleted messages? So I can search for spam, and correct those false
> positives by hand. Then true spam will be permanently removed along 
> with
> deleted messages when purged.

Yes. This is a possibility. Instead of ignoring those messages 
altogether, the app could simply mark them as "discarded". This is what 
you have in mind?

> Just a thought. Once again, not a big deal for me personally. Since I
> don't get many false positives, my current solution works, albeit
> cumbersome.
>
> BTW, did you received my previous private messages, sent on 11/11 and 
> 12,
> reporting a couple of minor bugs asking a question?

Yep. Got them. Thanks.  Will take a look.

> The bugs are of low
> priority for me (there are more to come, though, if you're interested),
> but I'd really love to know how exactly ZOE determines that I'm from
> Milton, a place whose whereabouts is beyond me, and if there's anyway I
> can correct this.

Ahhh... the mystery of NetGeo [1]... this is how it goes... the app try 
to find the IP address, er, "closest to you" by examining a message 
"Received" headers... this address is then converted to a geographical 
location using NetGeo... please note that:

"NetGeo has not been actively maintained for several years, and this 
will probably not change in the foreseeable future. As a result, there 
are several known major issues affecting accuracy and service 
availability. Please be warned that NetGeo may give wildly incorrect 
results, especially for recently allocated or re-assigned IP 
addresses."

In a nutshell, this is mostly guess work... there is a configuration to 
disable this NetGeo business altogether if you find it too confusing... 
:o)

Cheers,

R.

[1] http://www.caida.org/tools/utilities/netgeo/



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