On or near 7/6/04 11:59 AM, Bruce Klutchko at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> A recent discussion on this list about setting up a rule to separate mail
> from oneself vs. mail forged to look like it is from oneself has prompted
> the following question:
>
> I often receive spam that is sent to a laundry-list of people at my ISP
> (erols.com). Because it is a rather small ISP, all of the people who are
> likely to get legitimate mail along with me at the same time are already in
> my mailing list.
>
> Trying to set up a rule to catch the spam that sneaks thru the E�04 filter
> (on High) by trying must meet all criteria:
> * any recipient contains erols.com
> * any recipient is not me
> * any recipient is not in my address book
> does not work, as it seems to apply the criteria to separate recipients, not
> just to one single recipient..
>
> Is there any way to set up a rule so that if there is any recipient who is
> at erols.com and not in my address book, the mail could be categorized as
> junk?
>
Sounds like you need a script, because the logic of what you are looking for
is like this:
any recipient contains erols.com AND is not me AND is not in my address
book
That is, the same recipient must meet all criteria; it's not enough that
recipient 1 contains erols.com and recipient 3 is not in your address book.
The tests must be made all on the same recipient.
You want to trigger only if it is an "erols.com" address which isn't you
that is not in your address book. It has to be a script, because if there is
more than one recipient, you need to isolate to test each individual
recipient for all three criteria.
You could set up a rule with "only recipient" that would do what you want
for single-recipient messages. You could then do a reverse logic one for
multiple-recipients that will trigger a script.
Rule 1: only recipient is not me
only recipient is not in my address book
only recipient contains "erols.com"
Rule 2: any recipient is not in my address book
-- Run script
Script:
Pseudo-code:
Get list of all recipients of message
Loop thru list
If this_recipient contains "erols.com" and this_recipient is not
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" then
classify message as junk by adding category "Junk"
end loop
One thought: is "not me" really necessary? Aren't you in your own address
book? And didn't you say that all valid erols.com addresses are in your
address book? If so, that eliminates at least one test. That is,
if it is not in your address book and contains "erols.com", for sure it
isn't you.
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