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Stefan Ozminski writes: 

> (previously submitted question with updates, reformatting, and a subject 
> line) 
> 
> I would like to have the option of enabling Spam processing on my 
> mail.msu.edu mail without having ***SPAM*** put in subject lines.  And I 
> would like to have a solution that non-technical users can implement.  The 
> objective is to take advantage of the headers inserted by Spam Assassin 
> using a workstation email client without having to login to Webmail to 
> check for non-spam messages in the SPAM folder.  I don't want my subject 
> lines modified, and I don't want to maintain a Trusted Senders list in 
> Webmail.  I do want my client side address book to be my trusted senders 
> list to compare against messages marked as Spam by SpamAssassin. 
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to enable the Malmail Setting "Move to SPAM 
> folder" and have the Spam automatically put in the Inbox instead?  I tried 
> a filter for "X-SPAM-LEVEL starts with *****", but it does not move 
> messages to the Inbox. 
> 
> Or does anyone know of a way to retrieve mail from the SPAM folder using 
> POP3 (we have an Imail server which allows us to use a special 
> username-mailbox syntax to retrieve mail from a folder other than Inbox). 
> 
> Or do you have a better suggestion?   Note that the parameters of the 
> solution are that it be "within the mail.msu.edu system", and that it uses 
> POP3.  An IMAP solution will not give me what I want.  A solution that 
> involves telnet or ftp will be too complicated. 
> 
> Thanks,
> -Stefan 
> 

Stefan, 

The "Move to SPAM folder" option won't work in terms of adding another rule 
for further processing. When a message is filtered, and matches the criteria 
that meets the "Move to SPAM folder" option, filtering ceases on that 
message. The filtering for spam options happen automatically before user 
defined filter rules. 

For the spam option of having the subject modified, further filtering can be 
done in user filters. Unfortunately the subject has already been changed at 
this point. 

Our POP3 doesn't support folders, so I'm not sure if there's really a 
solution on our system for what you're looking to do. 

 -Ed