Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

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Tim Fountain [TF] wrote:'

TF> On a semi-related note, does anyone know if it's possible to setup a
TF> global filter of some sort that applies to all accounts?

No. This isn't possible. It will likely be possible in later
versions.

TF> It's a little tedious to have to setup the spam filter on all seven
TF> of my accounts.

With regards to spam filtering, it's best to place the spam filters
at the bottom of the incoming filters list. In this way, TB!
checks messages last with the spam filters.

If you used a global filter, how would TB! know where to apply the
filter. In fact, it may very well apply global filters first.

I do have a few filters that could be applied globally. However,
I wouldn't do so with my spam filter since it's position in the
filter list is important.

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Tim Fountain]

On Saturday, February 22, 2003, James Olsen wrote:

> There's also free Win32 version that you can very easily use with
> ANY email client called SAProxy (http://saproxy.bloomba.com/). It
> will scan messages and flag them as SPAM (based on your
> configuration) as they are downloaded from your server to your
> client.

I hadn't heard about this program before although I know about spam
assasin. After reading this recommendation I installed it and it does
work very well. It doesn't catch all spam but I'd say about 90%, and
it is very easy to setup.

On a semi-related note, does anyone know if it's possible to setup a
global filter of some sort that applies to all accounts?  It's a
little tedious to have to setup the spam filter on all seven of my
accounts.

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Miguel A. Urech]

Hello John,

> I looked over the manual, but it was way to vague for me.
> Especially when all I ever seen from the program was a DOS program.

A DOS program

If you have installed POPFile you should have aPOPFile Program group
in Star/Programs. There you have access to two versions of the manual,
one local (installed) if you click Manual and one on-line if you
select Support/POPFile Manual.

To configure POPFile you have to select "POPFile User Interface" from
the same Program group. The UI is in HTML and will show in your
browser.

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Marcus Ohlström]

On Saturday, February 22, 2003, 22:11, John Morse wrote:

M>> | Installing POPFile
M>> | Setting up Buckets for mail classification 
M>> | Getting your email program to work with POPFile 
M>> | Training POPFile

> I looked over the manual, but it was way to vague for me.
> Especially when all I ever seen from the program was a DOS program.

There is a web interface. Take a look at the bottom of
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/manual/installing.html

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[John Morse]

Miguel A. Urech wrote:
M> | Installing POPFile 
M> | Setting up Buckets for mail classification 
M> | Getting your email program to work with POPFile 
M> | Training POPFile

I looked over the manual, but it was way to vague for me.
Especially when all I ever seen from the program was a DOS program.

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Miguel A. Urech]

Hello John,

> I never could figure out how to setup Popfile.

Once installed the Manual is available:

,- [  ]
| To learn how to set up POPFile, please choose one of the following options.
| 
| Installing POPFile 
| Setting up Buckets for mail classification 
| Getting your email program to work with POPFile 
| Training POPFile 
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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Miguel A. Urech]

Hello Krister,

> May i ask why? Is Spampal harder to set up? Less ackurate? I also want
> to use the best, so am curious as to why folks prefer one thing over
> the other, but it's also of course a matter of preference.

I'm only interested in Bayesian classification and that is only one of
the options in Spampal (actually a plugin if I recall) and I also
found POFile easier to manage and more accurate but, like English
speaking people say, YMMV :)

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[John Morse]

Krister Ekstrom wrote:
MAU>> Yes, for a couple of days and decided to stay with POPFile.

I never could figure out how to setup Popfile.
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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Krister Ekstrom]

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In a message with mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Have you guys used SpamPal ?

MAU> Yes, for a couple of days and decided to stay with POPFile.

May i ask why? Is Spampal harder to set up? Less ackurate? I also want
to use the best, so am curious as to why folks prefer one thing over
the other, but it's also of course a matter of preference.

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Peter Fjelsten]

~John,

On 22-02-2003 01:25, you [~] wrote in
:
~> Peter Fjelsten wrote:
M>>> But that is also because Spampal has the option to "bounce" (actually
M>>> a reply) spam messages which, to my knowledge, is completely wrong in
M>>> concept. If bounce (or reply to) real spam it will get nowhere :)

~> I didn't know SpamPal was capable of this... could you tell me where
~> this feature is located in SpamPal.

I didn't write that, Miguel did. I asked for where he found that, too.

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Marck D Pearlstone]

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Hi Al,

@21-Feb-2003, 08:46 -0800 (16:46 UK time) Al Jacobus [AJ] in
mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

AJ> Could you share your spam filters with the group? It seems I am
AJ> constantly adding words and I know there must be another,
AJ> simpler way.

First - specific filters - those who know me and I know - move to
various folders.
Then - Anyone in my address book - move to Inbox
Next - non-specific filter - catch those directly to me *except*
some special. Here is that filter:

BeginFilter
Name: To Me
Active: 1
Source: \\Inbox
Target: \\Inbox
CopyFolder: none
MainSet: 10silverstones.com
MainSet: 21\s{3,}
MainSet: 21\$
MainSet: 31As seen on
MainSet: 01\d{4,}
MainSet: 31EXTRA INCOME?
MainSet: 31adult site
MainSet: 21Mortgage Rates
MainSet: 20Money for webmaster
MainSet: 50Bat!
MainSet: 00expedia
Actions: faoRegExp,faSetColor
ColourGroup: ToMe
EndFilter

I add other exemptions to this (messages that *are* spam but are
directly addressed to me are rare).

Finally - anything else is spam. Move it to my anti-spam folder.

That's what I do. It's 99.99% reliable. Unlike mailwasher, it
doesn't choke and send 500 bounce messages to non-spam originators
when you unlease backlogged mail after a holiday. It just works
quietly and simply.

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[~John]

Peter Fjelsten wrote:
M>> But that is also because Spampal has the option to "bounce" (actually
M>> a reply) spam messages which, to my knowledge, is completely wrong in
M>> concept. If bounce (or reply to) real spam it will get nowhere :)

I didn't know SpamPal was capable of this... could you tell me where
this feature is located in SpamPal.
(I know "bouncing" is not a good way to fight spam, I know that, so please no
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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Peter Fjelsten]

Miguel,

On 21-02-2003 21:42, you [M] wrote in
:
M> But that is also because Spampal has the option to "bounce" (actually
M> a reply) spam messages which, to my knowledge, is completely wrong in
M> concept. If bounce (or reply to) real spam it will get nowhere :)

?

Is that a plug-in? Not that I would use it - bouncing is hardly solution
and probably does way more harm.


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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Luc]

 Good night Tim,
  
It was foretold that on 21-2-2003 @ 06:53:20 GMT+1100 (which was
20:53:20 where I live) Tim would mumble:
  

T> For Windows, there's a simple installer that will install the minimum
T> Perl needed. 
  
 Yep, that did the trick. Tnx.
 
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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Michael L. Wilson]

Hello Michael,

I downloaded SpamPal two days ago because of people on this list.  It
was very easy to setup and works awesome and invisible.  I put all my
spam in a spam trap folder, as suggested on the author's website.
Once a day, I go into the spam trap folder and add users to my
whitelist that got caught by accident.  I believe that in a couple of
weeks, everyone I want mail from will be on my white list.  Others, I
just delete for now.  When SpamPal is fully setup, I'll start
forwarding things to spamcop.

Michael

Friday, February 21, 2003, 1:46:46 PM, you wrote:



MG> Hi Thomas and list,

MG> On Friday, February 21, 2003 at 02:36:06 GMT +0700 (which was 20:36
MG> where I live) Thomas Fernandez wrote (at least in parts) and made
MG> these valuable points on the subject of "Plug-in/Feature Request to
MG> allow one to define a plugin to do something on a message or group of
MG> messages":

>> I haven't used spampal, but I see that it is not that easy to
>> configure, judging from the recent flushing of TBUDL by one Frank
>> Nijkamp. ;-)

MG> You can't hold spampal responsible for a wrong configuration.

MG> Apart from a terribly wrong configuration, I think it's quite stupid
MG> to send a reply to a spammer.

MG> I configured Spampal with a white list from my adressbook the first
MG> thing after installing (being carefull to have _all_ my mailing-lists in
MG> the whitelist), selecting some (!) DNSBL-Lists and after a weeks
MG> success with the bayesian-plugin.

MG> SpamPal works charmingly now for me. I empty my spamfolder once a ay
MG> to Spamcop .
 

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Michael Geyer]

Hi Thomas and list,

On Friday, February 21, 2003 at 02:36:06 GMT +0700 (which was 20:36
where I live) Thomas Fernandez wrote (at least in parts) and made
these valuable points on the subject of "Plug-in/Feature Request to
allow one to define a plugin to do something on a message or group of
messages":

> I haven't used spampal, but I see that it is not that easy to
> configure, judging from the recent flushing of TBUDL by one Frank
> Nijkamp. ;-)

You can't hold spampal responsible for a wrong configuration.

Apart from a terribly wrong configuration, I think it's quite stupid
to send a reply to a spammer.

I configured Spampal with a white list from my adressbook the first
thing after installing (being carefull to have _all_ my mailing-lists in
the whitelist), selecting some (!) DNSBL-Lists and after a weeks
success with the bayesian-plugin.

SpamPal works charmingly now for me. I empty my spamfolder once a ay
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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Miguel A. Urech]

Hello Thomas,

> I haven't used spampal, but I see that it is not that easy to
> configure, judging from the recent flushing of TBUDL by one Frank
> Nijkamp. ;-)

But that is also because Spampal has the option to "bounce" (actually
a reply) spam messages which, to my knowledge, is completely wrong in
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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Miguel A. Urech]

Hello ~John,

> Have you guys used SpamPal ?

Yes, for a couple of days and decided to stay with POPFile.

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Miguel A. Urech]

Hello Mark,

> I'm willing to give POPFile a try, however. What is the URL?

  http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Gerard]

ON Friday, February 21, 2003, 5:46:39 PM, you wrote:
AJ> Could you share your spam filters with the group? It seems I am
AJ> constantly adding words and I know there must be another, simpler way.


Al,

Here is my tip:
After filtering out al "know" email try searching for "To unsubscribe"
in TEXT. I have found that almost all spam has this near the bottom sof
their mails.

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[~John]

Miguel A. Urech wrote:
>> I disagree. After one month's training Popfile is running at 99.5%
>> accuracy. I'm left with maybe one spam message every two days that's
>> not filtered into my spam folder. Impressive,

M> Fully agree with you about POPFile. I get an average of 30 spam
M> messages per day and the last time I saw a false positive was a couple
M> of weeks ago. As you say, impresive!

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Miguel A. Urech]

Hello Clive,

> I disagree. After one month's training Popfile is running at 99.5%
> accuracy. I'm left with maybe one spam message every two days that's
> not filtered into my spam folder. Impressive,

Fully agree with you about POPFile. I get an average of 30 spam
messages per day and the last time I saw a false positive was a couple
of weeks ago. As you say, impresive!

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

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Hi Peter,
In a message with [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 On 21 Feb 2003 16:13:35 , you typed:


M>> Anyone running a private mailserver on a dial-up has their IP listed
M>> in the blacklists.

PF> There are many different blacklists. Some are more aggressive than
PF> others. I agree that they may hit some innocent people but with SpamPal
PF> _you_ can decide what to do with the marked messages and you can
PF> "whitelist" yourself.

Is this spampal thingy something like Mailwasher so that you first
have to go into one program and download mail to mark it as spam or
whatever and then go to the mail program? If so, i'd stick with the
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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Clive Taylor]

Hello Peter

~>> Or try SpamPal http://www.spampal.org.uk/

PF> Yeah, much better as it has both Bayesian and blacklist lookup.


I disagree. After one month's training Popfile is running at 99.5%
accuracy. I'm left with maybe one spam message every two days that's
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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Miguel A. Urech]

Hello Al,

> Could you share your spam filters with the group? It seems I am
> constantly adding words and I know there must be another, simpler way.

Use POPFile from http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ which takes care by
itself about "adding words", and in any language.

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Al Jacobus]

Hello Marck,

Could you share your spam filters with the group? It seems I am
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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Marck D Pearlstone]

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Hi Peter,

@21-Feb-2003, 16:13 +0100 (15:13 UK time) Peter Fjelsten [PF] in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

PF> With the amount of spam today I feel this is the only way to go.

... if blacklists have a positive effect on incoming spam, sure. I
don't believe they do.

M>> Spammers seldom use the same route twice, preferring to use
M>> non-blacklisted addresses.

PF> Then people better make sure their SMTP server does accept
PF> connections from just anyone.

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Hi ~John,

@21-Feb-2003, 09:08 -0600 (15:08 UK time) ~John [j] in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

M>> Blacklists are dangerous and don't work IMNSHO.

j> thanks Marck, could you recommend how you would setup SpamPal ?

I don't use it myself. I am trying out some of the new plugins but
don't see any advantage over a decent set of filters.

Very few spam messages get left in my inbox. In fact, it's weeks
since I had one in there. They all get moved to my spam box. From
there, I check for "slip throughs" (real mail - for which I set up a
new exemption filter) and submit the rest to spamcop.

Looking back in my Anti-Spam trash folder, I see a maximum of 13
spams per day. That's not huge and it seems to me to be stable at
around that amount. I attribute the low number to consistent use of
SpamCop.

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Peter Fjelsten]

Marck,

On 21-02-2003 16:01, you [M] wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
PF>> Yeah, much better as it has both Bayesian and blacklist lookup.

M> Blacklists are dangerous and don't work IMNSHO.

M> Anyone running a private mailserver on a dial-up has their IP listed
M> in the blacklists.

There are many different blacklists. Some are more aggressive than
others. I agree that they may hit some innocent people but with SpamPal
_you_ can decide what to do with the marked messages and you can
"whitelist" yourself.

With the amount of spam today I feel this is the only way to go.

M> Spammers seldom use the same route twice, preferring to use
M> non-blacklisted addresses.

Then people better make sure their SMTP server does accept connections
from just anyone.


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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[~John]

Marck D Pearlstone wrote:
M> Blacklists are dangerous and don't work IMNSHO.

thanks Marck, could you recommend how you would setup SpamPal ?

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Marck D Pearlstone]

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Hi Peter,

@21-Feb-2003, 15:53 +0100 (14:53 UK time) Peter Fjelsten [PF] in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

~>> Or try SpamPal http://www.spampal.org.uk/

PF> Yeah, much better as it has both Bayesian and blacklist lookup.

Blacklists are dangerous and don't work IMNSHO.

Anyone running a private mailserver on a dial-up has their IP listed
in the blacklists.

Anyone with the misfortune to inherit an IP address long ago
abandoned by spammers has a huge problem getting off blacklists.

Spammers seldom use the same route twice, preferring to use
non-blacklisted addresses.

In fact, the majority of folks penalised by blacklists are the
innocent.

My IP address is on the relays.osiris blacklist as a dialup and I am
unable to send mail to some folks. Not without switching to use my
ISP's server instead of my own. I prefer to use my own - I know when
mail is not getting through and messages *never* disappear on my ISP
servers.

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Peter Fjelsten]

~John,

On 21-02-2003 15:44, you [~] wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
~> Clive Taylor wrote:
C>> Try POPFile from http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

~> Or try SpamPal http://www.spampal.org.uk/

Yeah, much better as it has both Bayesian and blacklist lookup.

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[~John]

Clive Taylor wrote:
C> Try POPFile from http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

Or try SpamPal http://www.spampal.org.uk/

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Gerard]

ON Thursday, February 20, 2003, 10:24:23 PM, you wrote:

JO> Everyone's suggestions and comments are very appreciated.


Hi James,

I will assume that you have seen that there is an option in the filter
dialogs to execute an external program under actions.

The way I would do it would be to move or copy the msg I want to work on
(manually or automatic by using filters) to a specific folder. I would
then create a filter for the folder in the the READ section or make one
that executes on a short-cut command.

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Re: Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[Clive Taylor]

Hello James

JO> I'd like to take a message/messages and submit them to a Bayesian
JO> filter to learn my "good" versus "spam" messages.


Try POPFile from http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

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Plug-in/Feature Request to allow one to define a plugin to dosomething on a message or group of messages

[James Olsen]

Hello,

Is there a way one can easily define an action to take on the
currently selected message(s)? Specifically using an external program?
How would I set this up?

I'd like to take a message/messages and submit them to a Bayesian
filter to learn my "good" versus "spam" messages. Right now, I have to
save messages to an mbox file, FTP them to the server, and then run a
"learn" command. I can't redirect to a mailbox because I need to keep
the original headers.

If there was a way to use an plugin and have it appear in a
right-click context menu that'd be ideal.

I've also thought about marking my spam messages with one "color" and
legit messages with another "color" (probably would visually still be
black on white, but it'd be tagged which is the important thing) and
then have filters operate on those messages running an external
program. But I was hoping for something a bit cleaner.

Any ideas? Is this type of plug-in-ability something I can look
forward to in V2?

Everyone's suggestions and comments are very appreciated.

Thank you!

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