Spam Tagging Suggestion

[Julian Field]

This is in V4.

At 00:09 20/09/2002, you wrote:
>I have an idea for spam scanning with Spamassassin.
>
>Have a setting so it adds a tag to the end of the message if its has over so
>many hits.  Then have the tag relate how many hits.
>
>If 5(or whatever set at) hits or more its tagged like so:
>
>--
>MailScanner Scanned
>SpamAssassin - - - - - 5 hits.
>
>If 12 hits its tagged like so:
>
>--
>MailScanner Scanned
>SpamAssassin - - - - - - - - - - - - 12 hits.
>
>This way users can setup a rule in Outlook to there liking.  If they want
>aggressive filtering they can add a rule that if the Body Contains
>"SpamAssassin - - - - -" move to "Junk Mail" folder.  That 5 hit rule will
>also work on anything over 5 hits.  If the signature is added to the text
>portion of the message and its in html they won't even see it but the
>Outlook rules should.  They can also add another rule if Body Contains
>"SpamAssassin - - - - - - - - - - - -" move to "Trash".
>
>Hopefully users could ignore the tags at the end if they did not like them.
>Its really a shame Outlook cannot look at the headers for mail rules.
>
>Matthew H

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