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Re: Everything Matching SPAM Filter, makes no sense

2007-10-15 12:19:39
At 21:00 2007-10-15 +0200, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:
* ^Subject:.*([Spam])
.SPAM/

You already know that the "([" and "])" can go. Also remove the locking
modifier, since you are using maildir type delivery.

Er, I wouldn't eliminate the brackets - just escape them.

Otherwise, discussions such as THIS one would be filed away as spam.

Note also that if you're running a spam filter, sich as Spam Assassin - 
which is inserting the [SPAM] marker - there are usually OTHER headers 
which are better used for categorizing it as actual spam, and will help 
reduce the likelyhood that you're filing something away because someone 
SENT a message with that bracketed text in the subject (such as not 
uncommonly happens when someone replies to a list message which their own 
systems miscategorized as spam, and they don't edit out the subject 
modification).

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  Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering

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