On 26 Mar 2005 at 17:30, Jim Anno wrote: > I've been using K9 with OE for several months now since first hearing about > it on this list. It seems to work quite well except for one particular kind > of spam. I did some research on my question of "Why do I get mail that is > not addressed to me?" and found that it is most likely that the spammer has > put my address (along with many others) in the BCC box.
There isn't a "BCC box", in general. The fields you see in an email message [To/From/Subject/Date/etc] have *NOTHING* to do with how the message is transmitted -- that is controlled by a *separate* [and independent!] set of addresses that are in what's called the "SMTP envelope". It is just the 'usual way' that most email clients take the to/cc/bcc addresses you put into the message and use them for the SMTP envelope, but there's actually no *real* connection between them. Think of it like regular US mail: what you see [including to/from/subject/etc] is like the letter but the Post Office actually delivers the letter based on what's on the envelope, that need not have any connection with the contents of the envelope. > I've looked all over in K9 and OE to find a way to filter such messages, but > can't find any way to do it. Is there a way to see the BCC box contents? No. That info is long-gone. What some of my colleagues do [which I think is too much trouble] is to set up filters so that they look for stuff addressed to them [in any of their many legit aliases, which means a LOT Of rules!] in the to or cc fields, and then look for messaged addressed to every mailing list they're on, and then anything that falls out the bottom was likely not legitimately sent to them. BUT: I'm a little surprised that you're having trouble. K9 has had no trouble sorting out that spam from my real email -- The *only* spam-like rule I use these days is to look for the: X-Text-Classification: spam[93.6%] header. I think that if you just tell K9 that the stuff is spam, I think that K9 will happily detect it for you without any real fuss or bother in OE. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME list is hosted on a Windows 2000(TM) machine running L-Soft international's LISTSERV(R) software. To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have questions about the list, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
