Hello Daf, Saturday, March 30, 2002, 11:12:01 AM, you wrote to TBUDL:
D> What I've been doing is to highlight the unwanted e-mail in my D> inbox, then go to "Specials" > "create filter" - then check box D> that says "sender" - Then "use for incoming" - then send to D> "trash". But this does not appear to be working correctly for me. D> As a test I set one up to work with this list and I still get the D> list in my inbox. If you study the headers, you will see that the From-field for TBUDL-messages contains the original emailaddress of the sender, not the list address. This is contained in the Reply-to field. Therefore you have made a filter that sends not all mail from TBUDL to trash, but only mail from the writer of the message you highlighted. This strategy also creates a separate filter for each spammer, and this can make your filter list very long. Consider making a filter called Spam and make trash the destination folder. Open the Sorting Office (Ctr-Shift-S) With Incoming mail highlighted, press New Give it name, select destination folder, and enter the filtering string. When you shall add another spammer, click the Alternatives set and click Add new. For each new spammer you just add a new alternative. Consider checking out all of the haeders in the offending mail (Ctr-Alt-K) and use the emailaddress in Reply-to field or even domain-name in recieved from, instead of only the From-address (which is often faked and replaced with a new address the next time). Then you must select Kludges instead of Sender in the filter. Kludges looks for the string in all of the headers. Another strategy is to make an address book group for all your spammers. You just highligh the spam message, rightclick and select specials, add to addressbook, and select the spam-group. Then you can have a filter that look for @ in sender (every mail messages contains this) but under advanced you scroll down and tick the box Address must be listed in address book, and select the Spam-group. This makes makes blocking new spammers as easy as the function in Outlook Express (but less precise than the former strategy). -- Best regards, Ottar Grimstad, Norway http://home.online.no/~ottgrims Using The Bat! 1.60c on Windows 98 version 4,10 ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60c FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
