[pmmail-list] Filter for SPAM

Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:33:02 -0500

actually I use yahoo with that filter too, never had a problem with it though...

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:31:04 -0600, Dave Hathaway wrote:

>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>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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