On Tue, 25 May 2004, Owen McShane said:
> I would avoid doing any filtering based on X-Spam-Status at all.
> 
> Had a colleague who was filtering on the "X-Spam-Status" header containing 
> "yes". 
> 
> Not surprisingly, headers such as this were matching:
> 
> X-spam-status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,HTML_MESSAGE
> 
> Use X-spam-flag instead (just if it exists, forget any content).

The thing to do there is filter intelligently. Searching for `yes'
is not intelligent. :)

e.g. a procmail rule reading something like

:0 H:
* ^X-Spam-Status: +(yes|no), +hits=\/[^. ]*
* ? (( ${MATCH} > 9 ))
spambox

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