Our current method for training our Bayesian spam filter seems flawed. It

[Riven]

requires forwarding the email. Help? When we train our Bayesian filter by forwarding undetected spam to it, Outlook wants to download the images and everything from that email so that it can be successfully forwarded. This compromises one of the basic rules about spam: Do not download any of the pictures as this can easily confirm that your email address is not only valid, but that you also are a seeming spam opener.

Do any versions of Outlook have a way around this? We currently have licenses for Outlook 2002 and 2003. Is there some other way around this that I am not thinking of?

Our Bayesian spam filter is ASSP, by the way.
Thanks,
Riven
If I turn on the ReadAsPlain option for everybody, this would severely affect everybody's email experience. I do not want to have to change how people read their emails. I just want a way for people to forward emails to the Bayesian filter without being forced to download potentially dangerous content that is in the email (such as 1x1 gifs).

Given the popularity of Bayesian filters and how they are trained, I would
assume that there should be a way to do this by now; however, I do not necessarily expect it to exist in Outlook 2002 or 2003. I do wonder if it is in Outlook 2007, but I have yet to explore that program.

Does anybody else deal with this dilemma? We are about to switch to Exchange Server, so I was really hoping for a solution that involved Outlook. But if you have any information about other email clients that address this issue, please feel free to at least share those for the sake of others who may read this.

[ipndrmath]

I know that in 2002 you can display all emails as plain text by editing the registry.

Select Run... from the Start menu.
Type "regedit".
Hit Enter.
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\*
Software\*Microsoft\*Office\*
10.0\*Outlook\*Options\*Mail.
Select Edit | New | DWord from the menu.
Type "ReadAsPlain".
Hit Enter.
Double-click the newly created ReadAsPlain value.
Enter "1".
Click OK.
Close registry editor.


Not sure if this is what you wanted.

Email Me if you need anything.