[pmmail-list] Spam filtering

Paul Hodges pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
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On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 10:13:31 -0500, Oberon wrote:

>  Thanks, Paul.  This is not the mail I had in mind,

Ah, I think I got that URL from somewhere else.  Perhaps the attached
are the ones you really meant.

Paul Hodges
QBS Software Ltd


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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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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:39:13 +0100, Alfred Haider wrote:

>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 should look at http://www.xs4all.nl/~wtilanus/spam.html

If that's not what you want, here's my spam filter which catches 67% of
the above tool.

(! h.from = "@" | (!h.To=""))
|h.to="Undisclosed."
| h.from="netsales.net"
| h.from="promot"
|h.from="$ab.spammers$"
|h = "_["
|h = "alt1."
|h = "bulk.server.com"
|h = "192.41.19.90"
|h = "[206.186.43."
|h = "[209.167.79."
|h = "adnetwork"
|h = "ADV:"
|h = "dialsprint.net"
|h = "trim-slim"
|h = "cybermarket"
|h = ".ac.cn"
|h = "Stellar-X PostList"
|h = "edirectnetwork"
|h="digitalwork.com"
|h = "clickaction.net"
|h = "dwdata.com"
|h="[211"
|(h="marketing" &!h.subject="marketing")
|h="SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4"
|h="[216.77.145."
|h="-0700 (EDT)"
|h="[205.211.138.173"
|h="[216.242.."
|h="..................."
|h="213.196.34.168"
|h="metability.com"
|h.from=".tw\""
|h=".tw ["
|h=".tw [61."
|h.X-EM-Registration="#01B0530810E603002D00"
|h.X-EM-Registration="#00F06206106618006920"
|h="[194.228.59."
|h="[61.168."
|h="[202.106."
|h="[63.148.233."
|h=".kr (["
|h.to="friend@public.com"
|h.Subject="     "
|h="65.170.214." | h="65.170.215."
|h.from="prestwood.com"
|h="([217.11.39."
|h=".tw " |h=".kr "|h=".cn "
|h.X-Mailer="diffondi"
|h="205.183.255."
|h="200.24.95."
|h=".monsterhut.com "
|h="213.24.13."
|h="210.83.196."
|h.X-Mailer="MMailer"
|h="211.169.249.129"
|h="hinet.net"
|h="216.31.147."
|h=".ch ["

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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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