Spam Tagging Suggestion

Matt hciss at HCIWS.COM
Fri Sep 20 15:57:36 IST 2002


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

How?  I do not see that anywhere in Outlook Express rules?

Matt


> > >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.



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