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Bo Berglund
Just upgraded to OL2003SP2 from OL2000.
I have a spam filter sitting in between my ISP and OL (K9 if you are
interested). I have had it running perfectly for about a year and it
is like 99.9% accurate!
However, now that I upgraded to OL2003 the emails that are marked as
spam no longer disappear, instead they are put into the Junk folder
and I have to manually clear them out. Is there any way I can change
this?
The way K9 works is the following:
- OL asks for POP3 mail via K9 as a proxy
- K9 gets the message first and examines it
- If it finds it to be spam it adds a header item which reads:
X-Text-Classification: spam
- Then OL gets the message and I have a rule that looks for the mark
- If the mark is found the message is permanently deleted
Now with OL2003 it seems to work as follows:
- When OL gets the message it checks it by itself
- Then it classifies some as junk and moves them to Junk Folder
- These messages are then not sent to the rules processing
- The remaining messages are checked by my rules
The result is that since OL2003 is so much less efficient it discovers
about 20% of the already spam marked messages as junk and sends them
to the Junk Folder. Then the 80% remaining will disappear thanks to my
rule. But this still fills my junk folder with unwanted stuff that I
have to manually get rid of...
Can I change the processing order so that my rules are processed first
and then the built-in junk detector takes over on the remaining
messages?
Or can I switch of the OL2003 junk detection altogether?
Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com
I have a spam filter sitting in between my ISP and OL (K9 if you are
interested). I have had it running perfectly for about a year and it
is like 99.9% accurate!
However, now that I upgraded to OL2003 the emails that are marked as
spam no longer disappear, instead they are put into the Junk folder
and I have to manually clear them out. Is there any way I can change
this?
The way K9 works is the following:
- OL asks for POP3 mail via K9 as a proxy
- K9 gets the message first and examines it
- If it finds it to be spam it adds a header item which reads:
X-Text-Classification: spam
- Then OL gets the message and I have a rule that looks for the mark
- If the mark is found the message is permanently deleted
Now with OL2003 it seems to work as follows:
- When OL gets the message it checks it by itself
- Then it classifies some as junk and moves them to Junk Folder
- These messages are then not sent to the rules processing
- The remaining messages are checked by my rules
The result is that since OL2003 is so much less efficient it discovers
about 20% of the already spam marked messages as junk and sends them
to the Junk Folder. Then the 80% remaining will disappear thanks to my
rule. But this still fills my junk folder with unwanted stuff that I
have to manually get rid of...
Can I change the processing order so that my rules are processed first
and then the built-in junk detector takes over on the remaining
messages?
Or can I switch of the OL2003 junk detection altogether?
Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com