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Filter mails in Outlook Express

If SpamAssassin only adds some mail headers (like X-Spam-Flag) to tag spam and you don't want the subject to be mangled, Outlook Express cannot filter spam to a separate folder. A [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/52651 nice idea] from a person called Matt was to change the mail's priority to low, because this is something that OE can use for filtering. This can be done using procmail, as [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/52652 shown] by DanKohn.

This version has been updated to first remove low priority headers from messages before filtering:

# Remove low priority headers by piping through formail.
# If end-users filter on low priority headers, this will avoid
# false positives.  This is a procmail "or" rule requiring any
# of the three headers to trigger.

:0fw: formail1.lock
* ^X-Priority: 5|\
  ^Priority: Non-Urgent|\
  ^Importance: low
| formail -I "X-Priority" -I "Priority" -I "Importance" 

:0fw: spamassassin.lock
* < 256000
| spamassassin

# Pipe likely spam through formail adding
# the three headers that represent low priority

:0fw: formail2.lock
* ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
| formail -I "X-Priority: 5" -I "Priority: Non-Urgent" -I "Importance: low"
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