Spam Tagging Suggestion

[Robert A. Thompson]

you could put filters in outlook to do this with the x- headers now.  It
is what we are doing at our location.

--Robert


On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 03:20, Julian Field wrote:
> 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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