Probably OT: Stupid stupid outlook (as usual!)

[Julian Field]

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Glenn Steen wrote:

>On 6/24/05, Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller at ci.juneau.ak.us> wrote:
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>>Stef Morrell wrote:
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>>>So, I've got a virus bounce. Clearly I've emailed someone, they've
>>>got a virus and norton therefore thinks I should get spammed.
>>>
>>>MailScanner has washed it through spamassassin which has correctly
>>>identified that it's a virus bounce, but outlook has ignored the
>>>"Subject:" header, which would have junked it into my spam bin, and
>>>instead seems to be using the "Thread-Topic:" header as it's subject.
>>>
>>>Any bright ideas to fix/workaround this? Please direct all "don't use
>>>outlook" to /dev/null, I don't make group IT policy! ;)
>>>
>>>Stef
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>>Really hard to say w/o being able to see how you have Outlook configured.
>>Are you using rules?  What version of Outlook?  I'd play w/the ruleset and
>>tweak it, then run it until you get the desired results.  By the time it
>>gets to Outlook it's way beyond anything to do w/MailScanner and there's a
>>jillion ways that your Outlook could be set up that we have no way of
>>knowing about.
>>
>>Lotsa luck...
>>
>>...Kevin
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>>Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
>>CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Admin., Mail Admin.
>>155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
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>If you can, strip off the Thread-Topic: header in the MTA (easy in
>postfix), so that the silly thing don't have it to play with ....:-).
>Or (as Kevin says) .... play with the "rules" things and see what gives.
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MailScanner can delete any arbitrary headers you tell it to. See the 
"Remove These Headers" setting.

Perfect for killing those nasty "read receipts" and "received receipts" 
that Exchange sends out without even telling you it's doing it. The 
comment above the setting tells you exactly what you need to do to 
achieve this.

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