On or near 11/19/01 3:58 AM, Zachary Braverman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> > Lately I've been getting spammed once or twice a day from nice fellows in > Nigeria and other African countries who are trying to convince me I can make > millions of dollars by colluding with them. > > It's getting old. > > 3/4's of these come from Yahoo addresses. I know that I could automatically > shunt the known spam addresses into the trash, but new ones spring up all > the time. I could also shunt all Yahoo.com addresses into the trash, but > some are from people I actually know. > > What I would like to do is shunt all yahoo.com addresses into the trash, but > then send back a standard reply to the sender that their message has not > been viewed by me, and if they really want to get in touch with me, they had > better try another way. This also needs to be set up so that replies don't > get sent to mailing lists. > > Is there a way to accomplish this? A script, or something? > > Thanks always for your collective wisdom... > If the "good" Yahoo addresses are in your Address Book, you just need to set up a rule like this: If all criteria are met: <From> contains "Yahoo.com" <From> is not in Address book Move message to Deleted Items Change Status to Read That will trash all Yahoo messages except those from people known to you. If you are concerned that some person you don't know, but <want to respond to>, will send mail from a Yahoo account, you could move the mail to an interim folder called "Suspected spam" or something like that, and peruse it once a day, deleting those you don't want and saving those you do. I already have my Junk Mail Filter turned on so that it basically does this for <all> incoming mail. It moves all mail from anyone not in my address book to folder "Junk" and sets it to Category Junk (which I have set to a unique color), which I peruse periodically. You could use JMF also, unless you really want to restrict this action to mail from Yahoo. -- Add me to Palm/Visor: http://signature.coola.com/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson Applescripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
