Here's another one I meant to ask about - I've gotten a bunch of spam where the subject consists only of "Hi". I can't just put "hi" in the TF delete filter because it'll find anything with "hi" anywhere in it, right? It might be nice to have an option where the filter has to match the ENTIRE subject. Or perhaps some facility to indicate "start of subject" and "end of subject", like "^" and "$" in regular expressions. Then I could just add "^hi$" and get the same effect.
Or is there already some way to do this, and I'm just clueless? Thanks again. Chris Abele ----- Original Message ----- From: "IMS User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:18 PM Subject: Re: TF wish list > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Randy Brukardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 9:52 PM > Subject: RE: TF wish list > > > <snip> > > The problem is the design of plug-ins for IMS. Each execution requires > > reloading everything. A Bayesian filter database is going to be very large > > (or is going to require sophisticated filtering somewhere) because of all > of > > the gibberish in current spam. Loading it all from disk each time it is > used > > is going to be prohibitive, and leaving it on disk is going to make it > > pretty slow and possibly rather disk intensive. (There will be a lot of > > lookups for the typical message.) > > > > Your mail client filter doesn't have to deal with that, because it can > load > > the DB once and forget it until you close the client. (Or more likely, > write > > it out once in a while.) > <snip> > > What about making a dictionary service for TF? It would load the dictionary > file from disk when it starts (only once), and TF would just send queries as > inter-process messages, which should be fast. This way TF wouldn't have the > overhead of loading the dictionary from disk every time it starts, it > wouldn't have the speed penalty of extra disk access while running, and you > wouldn't have to re-design TF as a service. (But you would have to create > an entirely new service application - no free lunch, of course.) > > On a separate note, I've been meaning to ask: I've been getting some spam > where the subject line is just a long string of trash, but always begins > with "?=iso". Naturally I added this string to TF's Subject filter list as > a "delete". TF's list shows 0 hits for this filter in the week since I > added it, yet I've gotten a bunch of these messages through to the spam > folder in that time. What's up? Is the "?" or "?=" some special escape > that TF doesn't see? Is some other rule getting it first? (But I thought > that the most severe rule would always win - and surely that would be > "delete".) > > Not a real big deal, I just like to understand these things... > > As always, thanks for a wonderful program. > > Chris Abele > > This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. > To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite > http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite > Rock Solid Software (tm) > This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite Rock Solid Software (tm)
