You could just try:
subject_tag [SPAM-_HITS_]
In your spamassassin local.cf
Which will give you something like:
[SPAM-5.76] {rest of subject}
[SPAM-13.80] {rest of subject}
Your mail client can then sort on subject and the scores will be in order.
Alan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom
Allison
Sent: 09 December 2003 11:28
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SAtalk] Subject line consideration
Had a conversation with a rather intelligent user of email who had an
inciteful question/remark about sorting his spam.
I thought I would pass it along here as it seemed like a potentially
good idea. Eventually this turns into a request for a code change. I
could do this, but I hate the idea of managing diffs on released code.
Here's what this person is experiencing and would like to do to make
things easier for himself. To put it into perspective we are talking
about a daily volume of ~250 emails per day with no mailing lists
involved. That's a lot of mail, but he's a popular guy.
What he is doing today is essentially running spamassassin with
whitelist support. He takes all the spam and puts it into a seperate
folder and sorts through that a few times a day and adds anyone he might
have missed whitelisting the first time.
But he would like to be able to sort the spam based on spam score in
ascending order because most of his false-negatives are in the 5-7 point
range and by the time he would get to 10+ he's pretty much done.
Rather than getting his Exchange supplier to change their code base I
figured it would be easier to talk to everyone here.
Is it possible to modify the process of putting the "***SPAM***" string
into the subject line from a static statement to a more dynamic
statement where you would add characters based on the spam score?
An example might be:
"**SPAM", "*" x ($score)
where $score is based on the the spam score but modifie perhaps like this:
$score = (spam - 5) / 2
This would allow for a slower growth rate ($rate) on the number of "*"
and keep it short by removing the first five (assuming you have the
default limit of 5, really '5' should be replaced by the $limit)
$score = ($spam-$limit)/$rate;
I realize that this might be literally three lines of code in the
codebase of spamassassin and pretty simple to manage. But I wasn't sure
about doing this on my own and then managing diffs forever after.
Besides all the code change stuff, is there anything technical that
seems whacked?
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