[Mimedefang] Is there a way to change "To:" header?

[Richard Cooper]

We use Outlook here (as you can tell by my top post:)) and we just add the X-Spam-Score header if the spam threshold is crossed. I'm sure this is the default behaviour in the sample filter and Outlook has not problems filtering on it.

		if ($hits >= $req) {
                action_change_header("X-Spam-Score", "$hits ($score) $names");
            }

Its true you can't match on arbitrary headers so the actual score in the header is just a nicety for reference, but if Mimedefang does the thresholding for you its not an issue.

cheers
Ric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Rife [mailto:mimedefang at nabs.net]
> Sent: 18 June 2004 22:30
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: [Mimedefang] Is there a way to change "To:" header?
> 
> 
> Our users have MS Outlook as the e-mail client, so they can't 
> match on 
> abitrary headers.  There are some political issues with changing the 
> subject on false positives, especially when it is then 
> replied to and the 
> original sender sees we think they are a SPAMmer.
> 
> So, my idea was to add an innocuous name to the "To:" header. 
>  Since this 
> is not used by sendmail to do any delivery (the envelope 
> recipients are 
> used instead), I think it is safe, and Outlook *can* filter on it.
> 
> The question is: how?
> 
> MIMEDefang exposes a global variable $Subject that makes 
> adding to the 
> subject easy, but I can't find anything similar for other 
> headers.  I'm 
> not a Perl guru, though, so I might have missed the setting in 
> mimedefang.pl.
> 
> 
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