Filtering out SpamAssassin tagged messages in Eudora [Spam Assassin Tags Eudora Filters]

#1 find out what tags your mailserver adds to the messages, there will be a flag that appears to indicate that a message is more than likely Spam as it has exceded the threshold your ISP has set for the scoring

View the source text of your email message by hitting [Blah]

X-Spam: Yes
X-Spam-Score: 15.6
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on
X-Spam-Relay-Country: GB GB US US US US CL
X-Spam-Report:
* 2.0 RELAY_COUNTRY_CL Relayed through Chile
* 0.6 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_20 BODY: HTML: images with 1600-2000 bytes of words
* 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
* 0.8 SARE_GIF_ATTACH FULL: Email has a inline gif
* 3.0 DC_GIF_UNO_LARGO Message contains a single large inline gif
* 0.9 MY_CID_AND_CLOSING SARE cid and closing
* 0.7 MY_CID_AND_STYLE SARE cid and style
* 1.2 MY_CID_ARIAL2_CLOSING SARE cid arial2 closing
* 1.1 MY_CID_ARIAL_STYLE SARE cid arial2 style
* 0.7 MY_CID_AND_ARIAL2 SARE CID and Arial2
* 1.7 SARE_GIF_STOX Inline Gif with little HTML
* 3.0 DC_IMAGE_SPAM_HTML Possible Image-only spam

In the case of my ISP: X-Spam: Yes is the tag to look out for!

#2 Generate a Eudora filter [filter?] like this

it just looks for the simple appearance of the X-Spam Tag

so place this filter at the top of your filter list to do what you want

If you also/instead want to use the X-Spam-Report detail in your filtering [see here]

If any header line of the incoming email starts with this text: X-Spam-Score: ***

might work if the Header describing the spam score is 3 or more digits

Enough? [contact me]