The purpose of this document is to show you how to setup your Microsoft Outlook to automatically filter out Spam that has been identified by Spamassassin (a good spam filter).

Spam is unsolicited commercial email. Spamassassin does a great job of identifying Spam for you. When Spamassassin identifies a message as Spam it makes the following changes to the email message:

  1. Attaches a SpamAssassinReport.txt file (example): 
    
Spam detection software, running on the system "thompsonic.com", has
identified this incoming email as possible spam.  The original message
has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or block
similar future email.  If you have any questions, see
jeffrey@thompsonic.com for details.

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Content analysis details:   (6.0 points, 3.5 required)

 pts rule name              description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
 1.2 BAD_CREDIT             BODY: Eliminate Bad Credit
 0.4 HTML_60_70             BODY: Message is 60% to 70% HTML
 0.2 HTML_MESSAGE           BODY: HTML included in message
 0.1 HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNSAFE  BODY: HTML font color not in safe 6x6x6 palette
 0.7 MIME_HTML_ONLY         BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts
 0.7 BIZ_TLD                URI: Contains a URL in the BIZ top-level domain
 2.7 FORGED_RCVD_NET_HELO   Host HELO'd using the wrong IP network
  2. Adds some Spam Filter lines to your email header: 
    
X-Spam-Score: 5.987 (*****) BAD_CREDIT,BIZ_TLD,FORGED_RCVD_NET_HELO,
HTML_60_70,HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNSAFE,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY
X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.987 required=3.5
X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.4
    Notice the X-Spam-Status: Yes you will use that to place Spam in your Junk E-mail folder.
  3. You can use the example output from Spamassassin above, when you setup an Outlook Rule to move your Spam email to the Junk E-mail Folder

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