[Spambayes] Client/server model

[Tim Peters]

[Alexander G. M. Smith]
> That's a feature I've been asked for.  Just classify by the header
> alone.  The idea being that it would only download the header from
> the mail server, and immediately delete the message on the server
> if it looked like spam.  I'm a bit nervous about implementing it
> in case it is a false positive and thus irretrievably deletes the
> message.

I'd be very nervous about that.  You may want to ask Eric Raymond if he got
anywhere with this -- at one time he intended to set up a "header score
server" in connection with, or as an offshoot of, his bogofilter project.