#2 X-Message-Flag

[Neil Burnett]

Fluffy v1.1.89 and earlier
It seems that Outlook 2000 regards X-Message-Flag as
part of its system for flagging items for follow up.

This means all the messages I collect - I still don't block
them - arrived with the flag icon showing.

I have made an assumption that Fluffy adds this:

X-Message-Flag: Probably junk mail according to
bl.spamcop.net / 127.0.0.2

as the warning.

Not a bug or a problem, but it might be a good idea to
change the warning message name in future releases to
avoid confusion.

[Wayne McDougall]

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That was done deliberately so it would show up in Outlook
(and Outlook Express???), so people would get a warning, and
could easily classify, and see the reason for the warning,
without needing to know how to look at message headers.

I plan to add an option to allow people to supress that, but it
was a deliberate choice, when I stumbled across
that 'functionality' in Outlook.

Of course it would be annoying to people who actually use
the follow up gflags, but who does? (I only know one person) -
and they should be following it up to get the source
whitelisted. ;-)

Ok, I'm open to feedback on this:

[Ron Touw]

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Leave as is Wayne - works for us REALLY well! Clearly shows
up on Outlook2000 that there is something possibly wrong
with the email. My users like it.
Now if I could just get a really idiot proof way to get
clients to forward suspicious emails to me without Outlook
stripping out all the headers and substituting fresh new
ones?! Grrr!

[Neil Burnett]

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Since my original message I have advised our users to filter
[Junkmail?] into a junk folder. Now, they don't actually see
this flag until they are are looking at the folder where all the
messages are suspect.

By the way, have you tried to drag and drop the message
object into a new message (to you)? This retains the original
headers, but you might need to show users how to arrange
Outlooks windows so drag and drop is easy. Copy and paste
from the Inbox message list also works.