[Mimedefang] headers after multiple passes

[Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com]

What about adding a

X-Digital-Animation-Spam-Block: Yes

header conditionally on the X-Spam-Score: value being above a certain
threshold?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Cooper [mailto:ric at digital-animations.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 09:37
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] headers after multiple passes
> 
> 
> 
> > I just set up MimeDefang with the default of adding
> > X-Spam-Score:  only if SpamAssassin rates it 5 or higher,
> > and I have Outlook filtering all messages containing
> > that header into a spam folder.  I just noticed that
> > all the messages from this list are being filtered and
> > realized that someone else may add that header with their
> > own range of values.  Is there a way to get common MUA's
> > to parse the value part of that header or would it be
> > better to delete existing X-Spam-Score: headers during
> > processing?   Or use some locally chosen header name instead? 
> 
> I noticed this earlier today, although I didn't think it was 
> every message, just certain ones (I never looked into which, 
> or who they were from). Someone is adding a X-Spam-Score to 
> every email, even if the score is small or negative. To get 
> around it temporarily I added to my Outlook rule to ignore 
> that rule if [Mimedefang] was in the subject. I have 
> certainly never found an easy way in Outlook to do any sort 
> of regular expression filtering.
> 
> Long term (when I go live for my whole company) I would guess 
> adding the Mimedefang list to Spamassassin's whitelist would 
> solve the problem, but I guess if there is a better answer to 
> Les's question I too would like to know.
> 
> Sorry I don't have an answer, I just thought it was a funny 
> coincidence that I was thinking about the same problem earlier on.
> 
> Cheers
> Ric
> 
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