[pmmail-list] Filter for SPAM

[Brandon King]

Looking for a good spam filter, look no further than the help file!

This one string stops 99% of spam I receive, you just may have to add a few exceptions, like this list. Use the following string:

!(header.to="$c.acctid$" | h.cc="$c.acctid$" | h.Resent-To="$c.acctid$" | h.Apparently-To="$c.acctid$") & !(h.to="pmmail-list")

Just add any other addresses in the parentheses with pmmail-list. Search the help file for Spam for more information on how that works.




On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 05:41:36 -0500 (EST), Randy Fowler wrote:

>Hi Alfred,
>
>On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:39:13 +0100, Alfred Haider wrote:
>
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>>Who can tell me how to build a filter for spam mail with pmmail?
>>Can someone send me an example, please?
>>Thanks for your help
>
>You'll need to set up a complex filter.  Then try the following
>(from my message archive):
>
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:14:56 +0100 (CET), Winfried Tilanus wrote:
>
>>
>>If you call this book "spam" it is:
>>
>>h.fromid="$ab.spam$"
>>
>>(look in the help at ICSL Help and ICSL Variables)
>>
>>But often the from adress is used only once or twice by spammers. I
>>don't like adding the address over and over again. So I do it the other
>>way around: If the mail doesn't have your e-mail adress in the to field
>>(most spam doesn't) and if it isn't from someone you know, then chances
>>are big it is spam. So my spam-filter looks like:
>>
>>!(h.fromid="$ab$" | h.to="winfried.t@inter.nl.net" |
>>h.cc="winfried.t@inter.nl.net")
>>
>>Only occasional some spam gets through (I might add some extra checks
>>on exclamation marks, html, etc soon)
>>
>>
>>Best wishes,
>>Winfried
>>
>
>I check for mail addressed to me and anything else ends up in my spam
>folder.  Unfortunately that means that mail addressed to a mail list
>also gets caught since it doesn't have my email address.  To get
>around this I filter for spam near the end of my filters so that
>everything else gets moved into other folders before reaching it. 
>Only a very few actual spam messages get past and into the inbox.  
>
>header.X-Distribution="Bulk" |
>header.X-Distribution="Mass"|
>header.Precedence="Bulk"|
>!(header.to="$c.acctid$"|
>h.cc="$c.acctid$"|
>h.Resent-To="$c.acctid$|
>h.Apparently-To="$c.acctid$)
>
>
>Walter
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>HTH,
>
>Randy
>
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