A couple of weeks ago, I responded to a message Paul Schroeder posted about how to stop getting unwanted E-mail. (See below.) In preparing for a workshop later this week, I realized that my statement that "you have to download the messages from the University's mail server before Eudora can read and filter them" is probably wrong. It looks like Eudora and Outlook Express (and probably Outlook, too) provide for a filter that deletes messages from the mail server without downloading the message, depending on the content of the message's header.
Eudora calls this a "Filter," Outlook Express calls it a "Message Rule," and Outlook calls it a "Rule." Jon >Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 15:35:01 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Jon Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [folkschool-list] I really don't want a mortgage from Dubai ... > >Paul- > >It's pretty easy to set up a filter in Eudora - It's under the "Tools" >menu. For instance, you can set up a filter so that any message from a >particular recipient or with a particular subject goes directly into your >Trash folder. However, you have to download the messages from the >University's mail server before Eudora can read and filter them. I use >filters for a couple of active listservs I'm on, to direct mail from those >lists into their own folders, where I can read it when I get a chance. > >I don't know if the University has the capability to filter mail that is >arriving at its servers, and if so, if they would be willing and/or able >to customize filter settings for an individual account. You probably need >to check with the appropriate system administrators about this. > >Jon > >At 01:32 PM 2/7/2002 -0500, you wrote: >>Hi all. I don't have the exact address, but I've been getting something >>from Wayne in Dubai, apparently, offering me a really great mortgage - >>about 20 times now. >>Should I try installing a filter ... and how would it work? I use Eudora >>and download from the university's Saturn server - would saturn learn not >>to fill up my mailbox there? >>Please let me know, thanks, Paul S. > >Jonathan Falk >Pine Tree Folk School >RR 2, Box 7162 >Carmel, ME 04419 >(207)848-2433 ><http://www.ptfolkschool.org> > > Jonathan Falk Pine Tree Folk School RR 2, Box 7162 Carmel, ME 04419 (207)848-2433 <http://www.ptfolkschool.org> **Folkschool-list archives are at: <http://www.mint.net/folkschool/helpnet/archives.htm> Sponsored by Pine Tree Folk School ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84vzQ.a9gqS3 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
