on saturday NUMBER september NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER 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 NUMBER 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 NUMBER moronic mail autoresponders a faq from hell URL coding is art this URL email is sponsored by osdn tired of that same old cell phone get a new here for free URL _______________________________________________ spamassassin talk mailing list spamassassin talk URL URL 