Re: Distinguishing between mail that is "almost certainly" or "pr obably" spam

[Richard Duran]

On 7/12/05, Kang, Joseph S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard, I didn't think this was possible either but I just tried it.
> 
> What I did was create a rule to look for "X-Spam-Level: " in
> the message headers.  I had some messages that had scored over 15 and one
> that was around 5.  I created a rule that looked for messages that had 14 *s
> and move them to the deleted items folder.  I ran it on my "Marked Spam"
> folder and, voila!, it moved the ones that scored over 14 *s to deleted
> items and left the one that had only scored 5 *s.
> 
> What you will probably want to do is specify the rule the greater number of
> "*"s first and then have it followed by the rule to handle the lesser number
> of "*"s.  Ordering of these rules will be EXTREMELY important.  Plus it's
> probably best to test it out yourself first to make sure the rules behave
> the way you want them too.
> 
> But, it apparently is possible.  Or it seems to be.  Your mileage may vary,
> etc.  ;-)

Thanks for trying this out Joe. This is actually pretty neat in that each
user can decide for themselves just how many stars they are willing to
tolerate. Thanks to everyone else for the feedback.

Regards,
-richard

RE: Distinguishing between mail that is "almost certainly" or "pr obably" spam

[Kang, Joseph S.]

> -Original Message-
> From: Richard Duran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:14 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Distinguishing between mail that is "almost 
> certainly" or "probably" spam
> 
> 
> On 7/12/05, Jay Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Just filter based on X-Spam-Level headers.  If 8 is certainly spam 
> > then have your server side filter or client filter look for 
> 8 *s, then 
> > look for 5 *s for probably spam.  Very simple, no code 
> changes needed.
> > 
> > Jay
> 
> Thanks for the response, Jay. Your solutions would be easy 
> enough in the right environment, but most of our users are 
> using outlook, and I'm not sure what the filter capabilities 
> are there.
> 

Richard, I didn't think this was possible either but I just tried it.  

What I did was create a rule to look for "X-Spam-Level: " in
the message headers.  I had some messages that had scored over 15 and one
that was around 5.  I created a rule that looked for messages that had 14 *s
and move them to the deleted items folder.  I ran it on my "Marked Spam"
folder and, voila!, it moved the ones that scored over 14 *s to deleted
items and left the one that had only scored 5 *s.

What you will probably want to do is specify the rule the greater number of
"*"s first and then have it followed by the rule to handle the lesser number
of "*"s.  Ordering of these rules will be EXTREMELY important.  Plus it's
probably best to test it out yourself first to make sure the rules behave
the way you want them too.

But, it apparently is possible.  Or it seems to be.  Your mileage may vary,
etc.  ;-)

Joe Kang