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<P><FONT SIZE=2>We do just this.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>We use a rule in Outlook to look for {Spam?} in the subject and move to a folder in the users mailbox.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>What I wanted to do was create a rule which looks for "ssssssssss" in the headers. In Outlook you can't specify which header to search it's either all or none without writing custom code. I wasn't going to modify the subject, then if users had to reply to an email that had been identified as spam the subject would be unmodified. This also has the advantage that users can choose their own spam level.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>The boss liked the subject modification so it stayed.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Users setup their own rules, so zero administration by admins except for investigating false positives/negatives as reported by users.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Haven't implemented anything to feed false positives/negatives into salearn.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Greg Boehnlein [<A HREF="mailto:damin@NACS.NET">mailto:damin@NACS.NET</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:01 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Integrating MailScanner, SpamAssasin and Exchange</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hello,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> We have been using the combination of Mailscanner and SpamAssasin</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>for quite a while now with great success. What a great set of tools! I've</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>contributed what I can over the years, however minor that may be, but I am</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>always quick to point out Mailscanner as an example of an extremely well</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>built and flexible open source project. It solves many of the problems</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>that the so called "Enterprise MTAs" can't effectively solve on their own!</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>;)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> Recently, I have been asked by a client to try and intergrate a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>MailScanner + SpamAssasin front end with a Microsoft Exchange server</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>backend. The client wants mail passing through the MS+SA server to be</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>tagged with a header (simple) that identifies possible spam and then</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>having the Exchange server review that header and dump the mail to a Spam</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>folder for later review.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> This is pitifully easy to do with procmail, by looking at the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Spam-Score header, but for all of the documentation I can find on</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Exchange, I can find absolutely no method for doing this. Has anyone done</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>this on Exchange, or is there some other obvious way to make Exchange</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>throw out mail that is tainted?</FONT>
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