Jérôme, Thanks for fixing this.
The problem I was trying to deal with is that spammers try to get around spam filters by pretending to be the person they are spamming (me, in this case). So, knowing that I always use my real name when sending emails, I thought I could detect spammers by checking whether they used my real name or not. Another related spam problem is that spammers will sometimes send emails from the names of other people with the same domain (who they are also spamming). If those people are in my address book (which is quite likely with a company domain), this is enough to fool Power Mail's spam filter, with its condition of evaluating messages as spam if the sender is not in the address book. Generally, this is a useful condition, but I found I wanted to make an exception of people who share the same domain name. What I ended up doing was to make two spam evaluation filters: one evaluates emails from anyone who shares the same domain name, and the other is the standard Power Mail filter with the additional modification of not evaluating emails from the same domain name. This is kind of klunky, because Power Mail continually warns me that I have two spam evaluation filters (whenever I make any changes to filter rules) - but it doesn't matter that there are two in this case because they don't clash. Because of this, I no longer check whether an email that comes from me uses my real name or not. The alternative that we came up with was to get people in the company to set the "Organization" field appropriately, and then evaluate any email from our domain which doesn't have this field set properly. Best wishes, Jeremy -- >Jeremy, > >A looong time ago, you said: > >>>As a workaround, I have set up an additional filter which evaluates the >>>spam rating if "From, Sender, or Reply-To contains [EMAIL PROTECTED]" >>>and "From, Sender, or Reply-To does not use your real name". >> >>I've since changed the second condition to "From does not use your real >>name" because it seems that "From, Sender, or Reply-To does not use your >>real name" evaluates to true if an email does not contain a Reply-To field. >> >>I would have expected "AB or C does not use your real name" to be the >>negative of "AB or C uses your real name" (i.e. AB or C does not use your >>real name = NOT AB or C uses your real name). >> >>A bug perhaps? > >Yes, a bug. Note however that "does not use your real name" is typically >useless for the "from, Sender or reply-to" fields; it is more useful for >"to or cc", and there was no bug in this case. > >It will be fixed in version 5.2 > >Thanks for the report. > > >Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > "If you liked Emailer, and many, many of us did, you'll love this app. > The PowerMail people are constantly adding new features. A lightning > fast search is one of its many attributes" > PowerMail user comment on www.macupdate.com > > > Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >
