Thunderbird understanding SpamAssassin

[John Wilcock]

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Julian Field wrote:
> Thunderbird 1.5 has been released.
> 
> To quote from the help:
> 
> "Trust junk mail headers set by will automatically recognize mail that 
> is marked by a separate junk mail filtering program. Very often, your 
> ISP or mail server will install such a filtering program, which adds 
> special headers to your email before it is retrieved by Thunderbird. By 
> setting this option, you do not have to create special filters to 
> recognize these. Currently supports: SpamAssassin and SpamPal."
> 
> What headers is it using?
> I obviously want to change the default spam actions in MailScanner to 
> generate the headers that it recognises.
> 
> I have googled for it and can't find anything useful.

You can find out exactly what it's looking for in the SpamAssassin.sfd 
file in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\defaults\messenger

Alternatively you can tell people to use a custom definition file in 
their profile folder to teach it about MailScanner's headers.
See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=276420 for a brief 
explanation.

I've attached my MailScanner.sfd file but of course it needs adapting 
for each user to take account of the %org-name%.

John.

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version="8"
logging="yes"
name="MailScannerYes"
enabled="yes"
type="1"
action="JunkScore"
actionValue="100"
condition="OR (\"X-Tradoc-MailScanner-SpamCheck\",begins with,"spam")"
name="MailScannerNo"
enabled="yes"
type="1"
action="JunkScore"
actionValue="0"
condition="OR (\"X-Tradoc-MailScanner-SpamCheck\",begins with,"not spam")"



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