-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Message Rules
- From: ~OoO~ <SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:36:44 -0400
Now here's an interesting idea I just thought about... with the new Pocomail
I'm using, and I'm sure you can do the same with other non-MS mail clients, you
can have the filter check the mail before it gets downloaded off the server.
Using a spam filter, maybe you can have it detect the mail as SPAM and using
the filter choose to keep it on the server and not download it. Then, you can
use a mail checker, such as MailWasher, to bounce the message. I generally
don't like apps like MailWasher cause I need to open it seperately from my
email app and deal with the messages twice, once with MailWasher and once with
my mail client.
---Troth
::: Original Message :::
::: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:23:03 -0400 by cris
> 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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