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Re: Mail app and junk

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Mail app and junk
Date 2014-02-26 16:17 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <bn6icjFqdb3U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <bn3uukF96u7U1@mid.individual.net> <1lhn4yf.lnu50oy31x4wN%pfj@doesn't.exist.com> <bn4fraFcrkaU2@mid.individual.net> <bn4g5cFcrkaU3@mid.individual.net> <1lho6po.p367r61qd574gN%pfj@doesn't.exist.com>

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On 2014-02-26, Peter James <pfj@doesn't.exist.com> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> snipped
>> BTW, notice the "X-Spam-Flag: YES" header above? You could create a rule
>> to specifically look for that header if you wanted. Here's how:
>> 
>> 1. From the Mail menu bar, choose Mail > Preferences, then click the
>> Rules tab at the top.
>> 2. Click Add Rule.
>> 3. Click the "Any recipient" menu and choose "Edit header list".

> This brings up a box with menu choices shown as :
> From
> To
> CC
> Subject

Why'd you stop there? Like I said, "Edit header list" is what you want.
It's at the very bottom:

<http://jollyroger.kicks-ass.org/mail/rules-edit_header_list.png>

> I assume "From would be the correct choice?

No. "Edit header list" is the correct choice. See above.

>> 4. Click the [+] button and add a new header named "X-Spam-Flag".

> Header?  Do you mean "Description" or "Any recipient?

See above.

>> 5. Click the "Any recipient" menu again and choose "X-Spam-Flag".

> Trying either of description or any recipient fails to show
> "X-Flag-Spam"

See above.

>> 6. Click the "contains" menu and choose "is equal to".
>> 7. Type the word "YES" in the text box.
>> 8. Set the rest of the options in the rule window accordingly.

-- 
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I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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Mail app and junk pfj@doesn't.exist.com (Peter James) - 2014-02-25 08:19 +0000
  Re: Mail app and junk pfj@doesn't.exist.com (Peter James) - 2014-02-25 08:24 +0000
    Re: Mail app and junk Francois <xanrov@numericable.fr> - 2014-02-25 16:17 +0100
    Re: Mail app and junk Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-25 16:33 +0000
      Re: Mail app and junk Francois <xanrov@numericable.fr> - 2014-02-25 21:17 +0100
        Re: Mail app and junk Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-25 21:13 +0000
        Re: Mail app and junk Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-26 13:42 +0000
      Re: Mail app and junk pfj@doesn't.exist.com (Peter James) - 2014-02-25 20:36 +0000
        Re: Mail app and junk Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-25 21:21 +0000
          Re: Mail app and junk Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-25 21:27 +0000
            Re: Mail app and junk pfj@doesn't.exist.com (Peter James) - 2014-02-26 10:10 +0000
              Re: Mail app and junk Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-26 13:50 +0000
              Re: Mail app and junk Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-26 16:17 +0000
                Re: Mail app and spam Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-02-26 18:10 +0000
                Re: Mail app and junk pfj@doesn't.exist.com (Peter James) - 2014-02-27 07:47 +0000
                Re: Mail app and junk Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-27 15:01 +0000
            Re: Mail app and junk Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-26 13:48 +0000

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