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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Mail app and junk
Date: 25 Feb 2014 21:21:46 GMT
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On 2014-02-25, Peter James <pfj@doesn't.exist.com> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-02-25, Peter James <pfj@doesn't.exist.com> wrote:
>> > Peter James <pfj@doesn't.exist.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I seem to be getting a lot of email with headings similar to:
>> >> 
>> >> ****SPAM:14.5**** 
>> 
>> The "****SPAM:14.5****" text is not being added by Apple Mail. So you or
>> your email provider must be using a spam facility that is adding that.

> I checked the raw header of the message and found the following,
> inserted by my provider.
>
[snip]
>
> X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system
> "j.spamless.aa.net.uk", has processed this message and it scored (5.6
> points).
>   pts  rule name              description
> X-Spam-Flag: YES
> Subject: ****SPAM:5.6**** Sonomed Ultrasound Offers 
[snip]

Someone upstream from you (probably your email provider) is using this
service to mark spam for you. You'll need to contact them if you want
them to change the way spam messages are marked or treated.

> I have two rules that I thought would delete these messages unread, and
> they read:
>
> Any message that contains SPAM delete

Do you mean "any message whose *subject* contains "SPAM"?

If so, this rule should get triggered when this message is encountered
in your Inbox.

> and
> Any message that contains  ****SPAM?**** delete
>
> I seem to remember reading that the ? symbol in these circumstances
> would be read as any symbol or number.  Or am I wrong here?

No, I haven't ever seen the "?" character used in Mail rules. I just did
a test and the "?" character seems to be taken literally - in other
words only a subject with "****SPAM?***" would match. 

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JR