22/07/03 Neville Findlater : >A very effective mail action looks for a space character. >If it cant find one then you can be sure its HTML and bin it.
I recently posted on that : - this will find HTML-only messages with no text alternative (empty content in Emailer), which are likely to be a sort of spam that appeared recently - but this will also find any good message with no space in it, like when a friend sends just an URL (or when a bad friend using stupid settings sends HTML-only messages) So you should white-list messages from anyone in your address book before applying a mail action on "content contains no space". This is done easily, my mail actions look as follows: first: many auto-filing actions like Store Emailer-talk (if a recipient contains "emailer" then store in Emailer-Talk) then: Keep known senders (if sender is in the address book then store somewhere) last: Dispose of spam, in last position in the list to avoid hitting good messages that would fall in any previous category (store in "Spam" if the message presents one of many criteriae that I add when I notice new kinds of spam, the most recent one being "content contains no space") When my "Spam" folder gets crowded, I check it for false positives (OK, I admit I rarely check, because there are no false positives with careful criteriae). Then I select all and trigger my "Trash messages and attachments" script, after which the messages will live in Emailer's trash for some time before it auto-deletes them and enclosures will be in the Finder's trash until I empty it. ---- VRic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
