Hi Jeff
A fair number of abuse addresses repond with automated replies. Frequently, such responses themselves are identified by Outlook 2003 as spam and banished to the Junk E-mail folder, especially when the first part of the response/acknowledgement message is not in English. They get buried amongst the real spam. (My daily intake still exceeds 100 real spam messages (un)comfortably.)
Perhaps it is a good idea to build in filters that move such responses to an 'acknowledgements' folder, thereby avoiding that those messages, in turn, get reported back as spam.
Possibly, for a later release?
Regards

Willem

Great suggestion Willem, thanks!

I'm working right now on a Bayesian filter to work with SpamX.

My goal for this product is to develop it so it provides a user trainable filter capability so the user's aren't bothered with moving spam to a location where SpamX can process it.

I'm not sure but doesn't Outlook add the recipients to your Address book when you send an e-mail? You then enable the spam filtering to ignore addresses in your personal address book. You can then filter your Inbox with a rule to pick out, for example, the word "automated" or "SpamX" in replies. Most autoresponses I've had back include the original complaint

Just a thought but the rules available in Outlook etc are pretty powerful ... especially when configured right

I still manually check each message in teh Held Mail and drag it off to the spam bucket for SpamX to process. Have been yelled at by folk before when I let the automation go too far and they got told off by their ISPs for my mistake

I created a rule in Outlook to look for keywords that I have found in autoreplies and route them to a different folder. This rule gets processed before my Norton AntiSpam executes. It took a couple of weeks to get it right, but it's been 100% for the last month+.

I look for the following in the subject:
undeliverable
return
complaint
failure
abuse
failed
delivery status
automatic reply
entrega
auto reply
trouble ticket
email received
support case
delivery has been delayed
message delayed
could not send message
auto-reply
avis important
autoreply
Domain-Auftrages

A couple are obviously from overseas ISP's

This is great Rich, thanks!

(BTW I deleted your shorter version of the last message that you posted)

Rich,

Thanks for sharing your efforts. I just incorprated your list of keywords into a similar Outlook rule. We'll soon see how it works.

For anyone else who does the same, I have one suggestion. Don't run the rule from the Rule Wizard with "Look in subfolders" selected, as I did. It moved all sorts of messages from everywhere, including "Deleted Items" and several folders I have created to file messages I want to keep.