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Filter mails in Outlook Express

Wiki MarkupIf [SpamAssassin] only adds some mail headers (like X-Spam-Flag) to tag spam and you don't want the subject to be mangled, Outlook Express cannot filter spam to a separate folder. A \[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/52651 nice idea\] from a person called Matt was to change the mail's priority to low, because this is something that OE can use for filtering. This can be done using \[http://www.procmail.org/ procmail\], as scripted by [DanKohn] or using \[http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/ maildrop\] as scripted by Kai Bolay.

This procmail version has been updated to first remove low priority headers from messages before filtering:

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