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>E.: Ä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>E.:
>E.: > laÅ mi legis en:
>E.: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6161460
>E.:
>E.: Tiu TTT-adreso ne plu funkcias.
Strange, por mi Äi funkcias... Mi sendas anekse Äin.
>E.: Tio dependas de la aliro. Kun IMAP eblas demandi pri la MIME-strukturo
>E.: de mesaÄoj. Kun POP3 eblas nur peti la ÄapaÄon kaj la unuajn X liniojn
>E.: de la korpo. Eblus peti 50 liniojn kaj kontroli, Äu tia aldonaÄo
Nu, mia estas per pop3. Do mi provos vian programon, kaj eble petos ion
de servilo, eble kiel if.ufrgs.br, ke hostsul.com.br instalu spamassassin.
dankon al vi kaj MJ Ray,
Luiz
Email Archive: mailfilter-users (read-only)
From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: 4 suggestions for simple improvements to MailFilter
2003-09-29 09:58
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 10:23, Sundial Services wrote:
> MailFilter is, of course, priceless for us right now. I'd like to make 3
> very
> simple suggestions for improvements that I think would make it vastly more
> useful to us:
>
> [1] Allow the 'n' of 'TOP messagenumber n' to be user-specifiable.
> Currently
> it appears to use '0' but many more messages could be filtered if this were
> a
> user-specifiable option. '25' or '30' would allow many more junk messages
> to
> be detected.
>
> [2] One obvious characteristic of spam-mail, at least for us, is that
> spammers always send great numbers of nearly-identically-sized messages and
> do so all-at-once. Therefore, if two messages are identically-sized (or I
> would prefer, "identical +/- N bytes") and they don't come from a friend,
> they're spam. Let me delete all of them or choose to keep Z copies. (Z is
> user-specifiable; default 1.)
>
> [3] It might be much more complicated, but it would be nice, if the program
> could read the text of messages and compare the number of words they have in
> common in the first section. I envision that this algorithm would parse the
> message text for words, promoting words seen more than once and eventually
> dropping words seen only once, keeping only so-many words in the pool. Then
> go back and develop a signature based on word occurrence and count, and
> throw
> out dupes.
Then you'd have SpamAssassin inside mailfilter.
> [4] Attachments! If an attachment matching a certain pattern like "*.EXE"
> or
> "*.SCR" or "*.PHP" could be seen, then it's junk.
The problem in that the content descriptors for such attachments
may be *many* (like 200-300) lines into the body of the message,
and to read so much, while only a fraction of a 150KB swen mail,
is *all* of most emails, which means that you'd read each email
twice: once by mailfilter, and once by the process that "really"
gets the whole email.
And on a disl-up line, that would just about defeat the purpose
of mailfilter, it seems to me.
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Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jefferson, LA USA
"As the night fall does not come at once, neither does
oppression. It is in such twilight that we must all be aware of
change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting
victims of the darkness."
Justice William O. Douglas
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4 suggestions for simple improvements to MailFilter Sundial Services
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Re: 4 suggestions for simple improvements to MailFilter Ron Johnson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-09-29 09:58
Re: 4 suggestions for simple improvements to MailFilter Douglas
A. Augusto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-09-29 17:20
Re: 4 suggestions for simple improvements to MailFilter
Til Schubbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003-09-29 21:41
