DoctorBill wrote:
I ordered some machine stuff out of China on the Internet and have gotten the items quickly and w/o BS (Spam). But just lately I think the last one sold my address to spammers. COACH Outlet Pandora Store
It's possible that the merchant sold your address, but there's some number of possible ways that it could have been leaked, as well. My own experience with spam for knock-off luxury goods is that the operations who do those tend to be aggressive about harvesting, including scraping from web pages, dumps of address books from hacked email accounts, even hacking of merchants, etc. Once those guys have your address, they'll never get rid of it, and they may also sell to other spamming operations.
This is a place where it's wise not to rely on a single email address, but have several that you use, for different purposes and different audiences. One of the things that I've always done is that I keep an address with one of the big free providers. When I'm doing purchasing, I almost always use that address, rather than my primary working and personal addresses. I consider that account to be a throw-away address, and normally, I check that inbox only if I'm explicitly expecting something to be sent there. The spam filtering on that provider is decent, and I don't see a lot of spam there.
If I understood what to do with the SM Filter(s), maybe I could at least get those dumped as they come in. My problem is that if I don't work with these tools on a constant basis,
Filtering can be of those places where it's easy to forget the details of the mechanics, if you don't interact with them regularly. Thus, my previous advice to rely on the junk mail filter as your first line of defense.
Building and maintaining filters can be easier, if you keep in mind that a filter has two parts: the logic portion, and the action portion. The logic portion is a matter of identifying messages, and the action portion is what you do with the messages you find.
The logic portion tends to take the most work, and something that helps is that you don't try to do too much with a single filtering rule. To me, one of the weaknesses of the filtering structure is that it doesn't support more advanced Boolean logic -- in a single rule, if you have multiple conditions, you're limited to "all match" (i.e., AND) or "any match" (i.e. "OR), and I like the ability to do things like "X AND (Y OR Z)", but that's more of an advanced construct.
Something that can help you on crafting your rules logic is to make use of the Seamonkey search tool (SHIFT-Ctrl-S) . If you have a bunch of samples of the stuff that you want to filter, you can put into a temporary folder. Then use the search tool to create the necessary conditions that will find all the messages in that folder that you want to get rid of. If you want to make sure that you're not hitting messages that you want to keep, you can copy a bunch of legit messages into that folder, as well.
Once you have conditions that work for you, then you can use those to create a filter.
One other suggestion -- as you're debugging a filter (or multiple filters), it's worth enabling the filtering log, as that will allow you to see which which filters are processing which messages.
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