Hello Jack, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 5:33:57 AM, you wrote:
> 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, Yes indeed, I see how this works and I like it!!! Thanks for your help Jack. -- Best regards, Tim mailto:[email protected] ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
