Bill McIntyre's KISS motto reminds me of Einstein's aphorism to make things as simple as possible, but no simplier.
Creating mail actions based on message titles is a losing game as spammers resort to creative spelling, e.g [EMAIL PROTECTED] I prefer to focus on message text and mailing addressess. As you know Emailer can't read html and the vast majority of spam is sent as html. Emailer usually presents an empty message body with an "enclosed.x.html" when it encounters html-based mail. In my situation this spam 99% of the time. Create a filter in your Spam mail action that checks for an empty message, routes the mail to a "potential spam" folder and assigns it a priority. In my case I assigned any message containing nothing in the body the lowest priority (20). other rules include searching text for "HREF", "HTTP", then routing to spam folder with a 20 priority. This should catch most spam. You can add more filters to that rule based on your specific situation. I have added filters that check for the name of most African countries in the message body (for obvious reasons) and routes them to spam folder (hereafter SF) with a 20. Tracking by the sender's email address is trickier; I used to assign as spam all messages ending in .ru (for Russia); but we now have customers in Russia and the Russian-based spammers have discovered open relays and are otherwise disguising their country of origin. My solution was to add my Russian-based customers to my address book, which is my first mail action and sends known, valid messages to the proper folder. My experience is the vast majority of addresses ending in .biz are spam. So they get a filter in the spam mail action. After each email session, I open the autolog file and click on priority. Messages are filed from highest to lowest. Virtually all mail colored red is spam. HTH bevon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
