Reply to: Robert Stull
Re: [IMail Forum] Imail Filtering Wednesday 9:21:39 AM
From: Roger Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
R> Roger,
R> I went across the hall and talked to my regular expression
R> guru. This is what we came up with:
R> H!~From:\w:nul
R> This says that any message that doesn't have "From:"
R> followed a word character in the header--blank From: header
R> or no From: header--should be sent to the bit bucket. Though
R> you probably want to change nul to SPAMBOX.
R> This should catch what you want.
Thank you Bob, I will try this.. But if the below
filters don't work consistently, how can I rely on the
above? It does seem that the header filters work better
than the body filters if the address specific fields.
Roger
>>I very much want Imail filters to work. The message
>>that got through on mine yesterday had a blank From:
>>field. There were no characters beyond the ':'
>>character at all. Only the log showed an address but
>>not the message header. I have no idea how this would
>>be accomplished unless only the telnet login was
>>giving a from address?
>>The regular Imail rules filter here is very
>>unreliable. I have spent the last month trying to
>>filter all spam here that I see. It has been reduced
>>but about 30% of the filtering simply does not work. I
>>have no idea why. I gave the example earlier:
>>B~FFA NET:SPAMBOX
>>B~FFA Site:SPAMBOX
>>B~www.ffanet.com:SPAMBOX
>>B~ffa net:SPAMBOX
>>This morning I had 10 messages that contained the
>>above content that arrived in my personal mailbox.
>>During a month of attempting to filter this existing
>>source of spam, I have blocked about 10% of this
>>sources messages.
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