Comments on: Hotmail saga due to spam-filtering? http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/28/hotmail-saga-due-to-spam-filtering/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:31:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Hotmail hack #3: Add an X-Priority header http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/28/hotmail-saga-due-to-spam-filtering/#comment-275 Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Hotmail hack #3: Add an X-Priority header Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:55:55 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=272#comment-275 [...] Andreas Amann, in a comment on another Hotmail entry here, makes the following suggestion: [...] [...] Andreas Amann, in a comment on another Hotmail entry here, makes the following suggestion: [...]

]]> By: Andreas Amann http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/28/hotmail-saga-due-to-spam-filtering/#comment-274 Andreas Amann Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:12:42 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=272#comment-274 I just tested sending a message to my hotmail ("spam honey pot") account and it arrived just fine (well, in the "Junk" folder) even with no priority changes. Since I can't test this myself, here is something to test - my guess is that hotmail is looking for the X-Priority header for some reason - sending messages as "Normal" priority does not add this header in Mail (which is smart). However, you can add this header to all your outgoing messages typing the following in the Terminal (with Mail closed): defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"X-Priority"="3";}' This will add a X-Priority header to ALL outgoing messages, "3" represents "normal". I don't know whether this works (since I can't get messages not to arrive to my account) by my guess is it should - if you normally don't use priorities you should be fine (I don't know what happens if you set another priority from the UI). In order to reset this, you would type the following in Terminal: defaults delete com.apple.mail UserHeaders I just tested sending a message to my hotmail (”spam honey pot”) account and it arrived just fine (well, in the “Junk” folder) even with no priority changes.

Since I can’t test this myself, here is something to test - my guess is that hotmail is looking for the X-Priority header for some reason - sending messages as “Normal” priority does not add this header in Mail (which is smart). However, you can add this header to all your outgoing messages typing the following in the Terminal (with Mail closed):

defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders ‘{”X-Priority”=”3″;}’

This will add a X-Priority header to ALL outgoing messages, “3″ represents “normal”. I don’t know whether this works (since I can’t get messages not to arrive to my account) by my guess is it should - if you normally don’t use priorities you should be fine (I don’t know what happens if you set another priority from the UI).

In order to reset this, you would type the following in Terminal:

defaults delete com.apple.mail UserHeaders

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