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On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:35:17 GMT,
Sammy bin Snoozin wrote:
A lot of my normal, legitimate incoming email now has the word
"SPAM" inserted in the subject line.... like this example...

Subject: SPAM:: Next Tuesday Meeting Postponed

I don't want "SPAM" to appear in any email subject lines -- whether
it is spam or not.

I am using verizon ISP and Outlook Express 6.0. Is this something
that can be set in OE, Verizon or somewhere else?

You only have direct control if it is your mailserver, there may be a
setting on your verizon account for the mail you receive, but
generally an email passes through several machines before it gets to
its recipient, any of which may be running a spam filter, antivirus,
etc which may rewrite mail.

A common rule for filters is checking for multiple recipients or
common words. Other common rules may be invalid subject/sender,
mention of certain male enhancement products in the subject/body,
messages with headers/content similar to messages output by spambots,
all messages from a particular user/server, etc. There is no magic
solution, if there were the whole excercise would be pointless, since
everyone would include the magic header.

If you review the headers of your email (received) it should tell you
about any filtering. If you can't decipher it yourself, you may want
to post a copy, you may want to redact usernames in emails and remove
private info. Don't remove emails or links, just change from
to or
http://mcsuper5.freeshell.org/ to http://nobody.nowhere.invalid/.

HTH,

Michael C.
--
http://mcsuper5.freeshell.org/

The most valuable gift you can give to another is a good example.