On 5/23/02 11:54 AM, "Beth Rosengard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/23/02 5:46 AM, "Art Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The majority of the spam that I get is received displaying non-English >> characters. Is there a way to delete these email messages out of hand? > > Mickey Stevens, who posts to the Entourage newsgroup and is a very adept > rule-maker, came up with the following: > > - - - - - - - - - - > Save a few of the messages and look at the source (View -> Source). In the > Content-type header, it will show the character set under 'Charset'. Copy > this within the quotes onto the clipboard (Command-C). > example: content-type: message/rfc822 charset="us-ascii" > then, copy us-ascii > Go to Tools -> Rules > Mail -> New > IF Any Header Contains (pasted charset) THEN (select action) > - - - - - - - - - - > > I don't have the problem so haven't tried this out but I hope it helps. > > Beth > Okay...so here is an actual header of a message I got today. Ask me at any moment on any day and I probably have one sitting in my deleted mail folder. :-( > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Delivered-To: judis217-momathome:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <all the received headers snipped> > Thu, 23 May 2002 00:57:26 +0800 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: �K�O���eAdobe�Ϻt�n��CD > Subject:=?big5?Q?=A6h=B4C=C5=E9=B1M=C3D=B3=F8=BE=C9=A1G=AC=EC=A7=DE=BE=C7=B2=D > F=B7s=AD=B7=BC=E9?= > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/related; > type="multipart/alternative"; > boundary="----=_NextPart_5fKLezctcAw4WwIKd" > X-Mailer: U0IGC4MSe3z2RMeapHMM > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_5fKLezctcAw4WwIKd > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_NextPart_5fKLezctcAw4WwIKdAA" > > > ------=_NextPart_5fKLezctcAw4WwIKdAA > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="big5" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 So I would set the rule to find any header that contains "big5" (no quotes, of course). Is that really a character set? I just made the rule, so we'll see if it actually works. -- Judi Sohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.momathome.com -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
