[pmmail-list] Filter for detecting HTML

[Kenneth Porter]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:15:42 -0500 (CDT), Maynard wrote:

>I think you'll find that captures way too much.
>A good way to test these things is to have your historic good mail and
>spam mail in separate folders, and use the Find utility on each of
>them. For instance, try a Find of your above suggestion on a folder
>known to contain good mail.

I actually have a ton of filters for grabbing mailing lists, mail from
friends, etc., and dropping each in its own folder. At the very end I
have a catch-all rule that dumps anything not addressed to me in my
spam folder. But I still end up with quite a few spams in my inbox. I
then scan the headers for the two folders for unread messages and
usually find a few mis-filtered. There's always a few mailing list
messages in the spam folder, because of PMM's filter bug that misses
addresses when they're not the first in a header, and there's always a
bunch of spam in my Inbox that is addressed to me. I discourage people
from sending me HTML, so any HTML in the Inbox is almost certainly
spam.

I went ahead and added a check for the ContentType line in the body, so
I'll see how effective that is. I made this the next-to-last rule, just
before my check for not being addressed to me.

Ken
mailto:shiva@well.com
http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/
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