On Saturday 07 September 2002 23:22 CET Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> Craig Hughes <craig@hughes-family.org> writes:
> > How about configuring SA to set precendence to "low" for spam
> > messages, then filter on that -- no real human I've ever seen has
> > actually set precendence to low on real mail.
>
> Assuming there isn't a better way for Lotus Notes users, we could
> create a "Precedence: spam" convention.  The only two Precedence:
> headers I've seen (aside from one or two odd messages) are "bulk" and
> "list".  Adding a "spam" header makes sense given the convention.
I'd suggest using Precedence: junk. Albeit it's no standard header does most
Software already recognize it. Courier eg. doesn't send auto-replies to
mails with the Precedence bulk or junk. I think Outlook does handle these
special, too. [1] says:
| Autoresponses should always contain the header
|          Precedence: junk
| Notice the spelling of "prec-e-dence". In particular, count the number of
| n:s (and a:s and s:es, if you're totally agraphic and/or from the United
| States). This will prevent well-tempered mail programs from generating
| bounce messages for these. If the recipient can't be reached, the
| autoresponder message is simply discarded.
| [...]
| (For what it's worth, the meaning of the Precedence header in practice is
| that it affects Sendmail so that messages identified as less important get
| moved back in the queue under high load. [...])
>[...]
Malte
[1] Moronic Mail Autoresponders (A FAQ From Hell):
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/users/reriksso/mail/autoresponder-faq.html
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