Need E-mail parser rule for email headers

[brad207]

Hi... one of the first email parser rules I tried to set up was to filter on a custom header our mail server adds that tags spam messages. But I don't see any option to set up a mail parser rule that checks headers.

The header looks like this:

X-Spam-Status: spam

... because I can't use arbitrary headers in the parser rules, I can't easily set up a rule to automatically throw out known spam. I tried using 'body', hoping it might include the headers as well as the body, but it does not.

Thanks!

[KhensU]

I was looking for this feature to this morning. I want to check for autoresponders coming back.

[Matthew]

Here you go: Mail parser -> Rules and regular expressions for headers

This works nicely, but you need to dig into the code. You can extend the principles to other headers besides X-SPAM-LEVEL. Not for the novice, I'm afraid.

[brad207]

Thanks for the pointer to the patch. I ended up modifying my pipe to feed to procmail first before feeding to the esupport live/index.php script. That lets me apply a variety of sorting/filtering rules before it enters the esupport system, and the regular expressions are handled more predictably than I've experienced inside esupport.

I can share details if anyone is interested, I'm running on Linux, using sendmail.