-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Message Rules

Courier/Calypso email program alows you to filter on the headers also.
I use keywords in the Subject for most filtering.

I alos add the keywords to my Mailwasher filters as well.

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On 02/10/2003 at 8:45 AM ~OoO~ wrote:

If you WERE to take the approach of making your own filters, you should do=
 more than just adding a one-word filter. Awhile ago when I toyed with this=
 idea, everytime I got a SPAM message I would check the message real quick=
 and find one phrase or sentence. Example would be, "Enlarge you p*nis."
The=
 filter would be made on that. Problem is, if you check some of these SPAM=
 messages with HTML off, the message is completely blank, cause the email
is=
 really just a link pointing to the info on a site. So, I've made filters=
 for, let's say, "larger breasts", and yet a message with that same phrase=
 still comes in. Looking at it in raw mode would show you nothing there. In=
 a case like that, you might want to filter an item in the header. OE,=
 though, doesn't allow filtering within the header. Other email apps, such=
 as Eudora and Pocomail, does.

---Troth




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