[pmmail-list] Filter for SPAM

[Dave Hathaway]

Since I use Yahoo! Mail, this won't work for me.  Yahoo! adds an X-
Apparently-To when I receive it. :(  BUT, Yahoo! does add a header 
when it goes into your bulk mail folder.  So, I use this:

h.X-YahooFilteredBulk="."

This catches probably 95% of the bulk mail I get.

Dave

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:38:16 -0500, Brandon King wrote:

>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$") & !(h.to="pmmail-list")
>
>Just add any other addresses in the parentheses with pmmail-list. 
Search the help file for Spam for more information on how that works.
>
>
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>On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 05:41:36 -0500 (EST), Randy Fowler wrote:
>
>>Hi Alfred,
>>
>>On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:39:13 +0100, Alfred Haider wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Folks,
>>>
>>>Who can tell me how to build a filter for spam mail with pmmail?
>>>Can someone send me an example, please?
>>>Thanks for your help
>>
>>You'll need to set up a complex filter.  Then try the following
>>(from my message archive):
>>
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>>---------------------------------------------------------------
>>On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:14:56 +0100 (CET), Winfried Tilanus wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>If you call this book "spam" it is:
>>>
>>>h.fromid="$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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