188641 - Allow Junk Status classfication of e-mail based on SpamCop database

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 121146

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Rebert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

This feature (a similar one is used in mailwasher: http://www.mailwasher.net/),
would allow the user to have their mail classified as junk or not junk based on
the SpamCop spam database.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Spamcop is something what should be installed in the mailserver, not the client.
The mailserver should leave tags in the mail to indicate if it should be blocked
or not (and not decide to refuse the mail on its own like so many ISP's do). You
can then write a filter based on this tag (check for "X-SpamCop-Disposition:
Blocked bl.spamcop.net"). I'm using this for 6 months now, and it works
perfectly. Even the Mozilla junk controls work with them, because they seem to
trigger on every mail with this header inside. A pretty good side-effect :-)

But if you want to filter locally (do all the DNS-lookups yourself), see bug
121146. IMHO, that's a job for applications like mailwasher or cloudmark. Or for
a Mozilla-specific plugin. But I still think it's a bad solution, becuase if
everyone did this, the spamcop servers would be immediately overloaded. I repeat
: this is a job for the mailserver, not the client.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121146 ***

Comment 2

[laurel]

marking verified as duplicate