request of list members {Scanned}

James Gray james_gray at OCS.COM
Wed Jun 23 22:03:47 IST 2004


Scott Silva wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chris W. Parker" <cparker at SWATGEAR.COM>
> >
> > i'd like to request that all list members setup their MailScanner
> > implementations in such a way that list emails don't get marked at all.
> > that is to say: no {Spam?}, {Scanned}, [Scanned], etc. designations in
> > the subject.
> >
> > hopefully this isn't asking too much.
>  >
> > thanks,
> > chris.

 > Post a rule for everyone to use!
 > It doesn't bother me. In fact I see how some people use it.

(Top posting fixed)

Except the "scanned" in the subject line tends to confuse some threaded
mail clients.  My mutt machines have fractured threads occasionally,
Kmail and Thunderbird seem to handle it OK.

As for a rule, just make the following changes to MailScanner.conf:

- Change "Scanned Modify Subject = yes" to be a rule set, ie, (change
"yes" to "%etc-dir%/rules/subject.scanned.rules")

- Create the "subject.scanned.rules" file in your rules directory with:
ToOrFrom:    mailscanner at jiscmail.ac.uk    no
ToOrFrom:    default                       yes

- Restart MailScanner and voila.

You could even wild card the "jiscmail.ac.uk" domain (*@*jiscmail.ac.uk)
if you wanted to - that's what I've done :)

Cheers,

James

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