Hello Tim, On Tuesday, March 23, 2010 you wrote:
TH> Hello Jack, >> K9 simply adds the word "SPAM" (or whatever you tell it to add) to >> the subject line *before* the message gets to TB!. It doesn't do >> anything else (except learn from experience). Once the message >> reaches your (my) inbox I have a filter set up which routes any >> incoming message with the word "Spam" anywhere in the subject line >> into a folder called amusingly enough, "Spam." I then confirm that >> they are indeed spam and manually delete them from the "Spam" folder. >> Also each time you fetch your email you have to open K9 and tell it >> which of the incoming messages are spam. From then on it will flag >> (with the word "Spam" in the subject) any messages which match or >> closely match the criteria it uses to identify spam. >> I seem to recall that K9 is much more sophisticated that I'm making >> it out to be. It's been so long since I started using K9 that I've >> forgotten just about everything I ever knew about it. That's why >> it's important to read the information contained at the >> http://keir.net/k9.html site and the discussions found in TB!'s archives. TH> I understand what you are saying except for one thing: K9 defines Spam TH> within the K9 program but does not tag emails with the word Spam upon TH> TB retrieving them so I do not understand what you are referring to by TH> the word spam in the subject heading. Can you further explain what TH> you mean by K9 inserting or tagging the subject headings with the word TH> spam so I can set TB to send these emails to a spam filter. Well, first of all, after you installed K9 it should then automatically appear as a capitol letter "K" lying on it's face somewhere in the system tray every time you start your computer. If the face-down capitol letter K isn't in your system tray, then K9 isn't running. Now, assuming that icon is present, double-click on it and open K9. Once K9 is open, click on the "CONFIGURATION" tab. You should see the upper-right section of that tab dedicated to: "Mark emails as Spam by..." where you get to tell K9 how you want spam messages marked. IIRC the default was simply "SPAM". I changed mine to show "-SPAM-" for some reason so that now whenever K9 see an email it knows to be spam, it places "-SPAM-" in the subject line of the email before it reaches TB!. Once the email reaches TB!, my filter detects the "-SPAM-" in the subject line and re-routes the email to my "Spam" folder. HTH, -- Jack LaRosa mailto:jlar...@charter.net Sticking with with The Bat! ver: 4.0.38 for now. Operating? with Windows XP Pro ver 5 build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
