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Help with Procmail?



On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 12:11, Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> I have discovered that the headers of legit emails contain a line:
> 
> Status: R
> 
> whereas spam contain:
> 
> Status: (no value)
> 
> 
> What is the safest way to filter on a variable (Status) which has no
> value?
> 
> I thought of:
> 
> * ^Status:
> 
> but I don't want _all_ messages with Status to go to my spam box, only
> spam.

The "Status" header shouldn't be in the message as it arrives; it's 
added to each message by your mail reader, to track which messages 
you've read, replied to, etc. 

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