wadufag01: Change iCal Server invitations so they will clear spam assassin

Thursday, 7 April 2011

Change iCal Server invitations so they will clear spam assassin

The default invitations which iCal Server sends may be seen as spam by Spam Assassin (score of 5.8 or so), because of a large picture attachment.

The workaround for this I found was to modify the template for the invitation to eliminate the attachment.

The templates for iCal Server invitations are located in: /usr/share/caldavd/share/email_templates.

I changed mine so they are straightforward but at least not seen as spam. For example, my invite.html is:

 <html> <head></head> <body> <p>Event: %(summary)s</p> <p>Organizer: %(htmlOrganizer)s</p> <p>Location: %(location)s</p> <p>Date: %(dateInfo)s %(recurrenceInfo)s</p> <p>Time: %(timeInfo)s %(durationInfo)s</p> <p>Description: %(desc ...