way OT: add header (mailscanner) to be parsed by Outlook plugin forreporting false-negatives?

[Arthur Sherman]

Trever,

This would be fantastic plugin!



Best,

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Arthur 

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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Furnish, Trever G
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 12:58 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: way OT: add header (mailscanner) to be parsed by 
> Outlook plugin forreporting false-negatives?
> 
> Ok, sorry to go so far OT, but if you all can wax sentimental about
> perforators and the Tardis, I this this ought to be ok. :-)  I even
> added a mailscanner function (adding a header to a processed 
> message) to
> make it slightly more ON-topic.
>  
> I already have a modified MailWatch in place that let's users 
> see their
> quarantined mail and release messages one at a time, and I can easily
> have MailScanner add a header to "ham" containing information to be
> acted on by a user agent (Outlook).  I'm wondering though, has anyone
> put together an add-on for Outlook to allow easy "Report this 
> message as
> spam" functionality?  I'd like my (Outlook) users to be able to report
> spam that I've missed without having to leave the client to do so.
>  
> I'd imagine it working like so:
> For "ham", MS would add a header with uniquely identifiable info, such
> as the message ID.  When the message is viewed in Outlook, the user
> would say, "Hey, this is missed spam!", and click a checkbox, which
> would in turn causethis (as yet non-existant?) Outlook plugin to do
> *something* (such as executing a program in another thread, quietly)
> which would connect to my mailscanner system and report the message as
> spam.
>  
> I'm seriously considering writing such a plugin, but if 
> anyone's already
> done so or has a better solution, I'd rather avoid the wasted effort.
>  
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