[Spambayes] Filtering non-mail items: seems like a good idea

[Mark Hammond]

> I don't think I have ever seen a spam in this format, in all 
> the years I have been watching spam. You don't think the 
> spammers are reading the spambayes list, do you?
...
> The significant changes:
> ...
>     * Non-mail items (such as non-delivery reports, meeting 
> requests) should not be filtered.

I should have been clearer.

NDRs from *external* sources are still simply mail items, and are still
scored for spam in the normal way.  The NDR I am referring to are ones
generated by an Exchange Server.  In that case, the mail never left the
system.  Bounce reports from internet mail servers should still be processed
normally.

Meeting requests are similar - ones that move over the internet are "normal"
messages, and scored.  Ones moving over an exchange server network only are
special.

If an item has a Spam score, it has been processed.  Messages that are
skipped will have no score at all.

Mark.
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