-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Message Rules

well - with mail washer, even if you don't bounce, you keep the mail off of 
your computer. 
So you keep potential viruses and pings back to a mothership from happening. 
I've not tried other programs - so I can't compare. I've been tempted by some
that have been discussed here though. 
CrisS
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Barnstoneworth 
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 9:13 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Message Rules



----- Original Message -----
From: "Angela Cooke" <angela.cooke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:35 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Message Rules


> Surely you could set a rule to "stop processing other rules" "when subject
line has specific words" and set PCTechTalk.
> Just a thought
> Ange x

Yes you could, but there are some lists where spam sneaks through too, so if
I set the message up to  ignore  other rules, I'd still pick up the spam
from that list.

I've just been running an experiment this morning, Instead of using
Mailwasher, I've set up several rules that I thought would catch most
spam-Mainly using keywords that come up time after time in these messages.
It seems extremely hit and miss. Out of 170 messages downloaded since I set
the rules up, it's dumped 30 into a 'SPAM' folder- several of these weren't
spam, they were messages off this list, that had words like 'Pharmacy' in
them, yet it completely missed others that had the word 'Pharmacy' in them,
and just downloaded them directly into my inbox!! It seems to have
completely ignorned anything that was in HTML, regardless of whether or not
there was a rule that should have blocked them.

Also, it seems to take ages for the mail to download when you start applying
message rules. In the time it took to download all of the messages, I could
have opened Mailwasher, downloaded the headers and deleted/bounced all the
crap and be halfway through downloading it into my inbox..

Worth the effort, but I think I'll stick with Mailwasher


Andy

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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Barnstoneworth
>   To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:19 PM
>   Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Message Rules
>
>
>   HA!
>
>   I've just been testing out some message rules-blocking words like
>   'prescription', 'pharmacy' ..etc..etc.. from headers and message
>   bodies...and dumping the messages in a folder called SPAM.
>
>   First time I run it, about a dozen messages from  this group from the
>   'Interesting Phenomenon' thread...
>
>   This is why allowing the PC to handle the filtering is so darned hard to
do
>   and why I choose to do it manually with Mailwasher
>
>
>   Andy
>
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