Filter mails in Outlook Express
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If [SpamAssassin] only adds some mail headers (like X-Spam- |
StatusFlag) to tag spam and you don't want the subject to be mangled, Outlook Express cannot filter spam to a separate folder. |
A nice idea from Matt ( A \[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/52651 |
) was to change the nice idea\] 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 procmail, |
as shown by DanKohn ( as \[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/52652 shown\] by [DanKohn]. |
). This version has been updated to first remove low priority headers from messages before filtering:
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# Remove low priority headers by piping through formail.
# If end-users filter on low priority headers, this will avoid
# false positives. This is a procmail "or" rule requiring any
# of the three headers to trigger.
:0fw: formail1.lock
* ^X-Priority: 5|\
^Priority: Non-Urgent|\
^Importance: low
| formail -I "X-Priority" -I "Priority" -I "Importance"
:0fw: spamassassin.lock
* < 256000
| spamassassin
# Pipe likely spam through formail adding
# the three headers that represent low priority
:0fw: formail2.lock
* ^X-Spam-LevelFlag: \*\*\*\*\*YES
| formail -I "X-Priority: 5" -I "Priority: Non-Urgent" -I "Importance: low"
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