Mail.app and the custom filters
What custom filters have you created on mail.app??
As getting 30-150 spams a day i do use some of them (40+ filters) so i now get about 3-5 spams only a day in the inbox.
So, the most normal filters (i guess) include termilogy that i'm not interested in, such as porno (if the title or the message contains any of; long list of rude words AND click or webcam etc); loans, rates, gambling .. "have a look on this"; a list of the spam mailers that i can't make stop ... (as some examples, anything @j2.com, @tripod.com, @mp3.com @rbexpress.com, sagt, .... i used to have all hotmail.coms in that as well till i realised i lost 1 % of hotmails that way) - then site feedbacks etc to specific folders ... those seem all normal; now some 'weirder' filters.
I just added "if Content-Typ contains charset="koi8-r" " then forward to spamcop and cancel. sounds rude? i do't speak russian and i do get spam in russian. so with koi8-r it cant be any of my friends, they should use iso-8859 or win-1252... (yes, adding a filter to windows-1252 sounds more rude but maybe i try that for a day..)
Then, "this is not spam" if message contains that, or similar (the same terms in italian as well); opt-on list, opt-out list, unsolicited commercial email act, to remove yourself etc) forward to spamcop and to trash (i am testing how valid it is. so far only spam contain "this is not spam")
Then a long custom spam word list (handcrafted, doyma, optprofessionals, etc) => spamcop and cancel. all continuous stuff ends to that filter)
The most spammed account has if THAT account is not as "to:" field then trash. And then having a look once a day if there was anything that should not be there. (normally not)
2 things I have not figured out fo far yet in mail.app:
How can i add bccn as standard field to the new messages?
The delivery receipts.. how can i set those? I want to decide case by case whether sending the receipts, also requesting them would be nice to find out. Do I have to to hack mail.app to get those? I can't find any policy of receipts.
Can i fix them somewhere in the app or is it going to be a terminal or other thing? <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
As getting 30-150 spams a day i do use some of them (40+ filters) so i now get about 3-5 spams only a day in the inbox.
So, the most normal filters (i guess) include termilogy that i'm not interested in, such as porno (if the title or the message contains any of; long list of rude words AND click or webcam etc); loans, rates, gambling .. "have a look on this"; a list of the spam mailers that i can't make stop ... (as some examples, anything @j2.com, @tripod.com, @mp3.com @rbexpress.com, sagt, .... i used to have all hotmail.coms in that as well till i realised i lost 1 % of hotmails that way) - then site feedbacks etc to specific folders ... those seem all normal; now some 'weirder' filters.
I just added "if Content-Typ contains charset="koi8-r" " then forward to spamcop and cancel. sounds rude? i do't speak russian and i do get spam in russian. so with koi8-r it cant be any of my friends, they should use iso-8859 or win-1252... (yes, adding a filter to windows-1252 sounds more rude but maybe i try that for a day..)
Then, "this is not spam" if message contains that, or similar (the same terms in italian as well); opt-on list, opt-out list, unsolicited commercial email act, to remove yourself etc) forward to spamcop and to trash (i am testing how valid it is. so far only spam contain "this is not spam")
Then a long custom spam word list (handcrafted, doyma, optprofessionals, etc) => spamcop and cancel. all continuous stuff ends to that filter)
The most spammed account has if THAT account is not as "to:" field then trash. And then having a look once a day if there was anything that should not be there. (normally not)
2 things I have not figured out fo far yet in mail.app:
How can i add bccn as standard field to the new messages?
The delivery receipts.. how can i set those? I want to decide case by case whether sending the receipts, also requesting them would be nice to find out. Do I have to to hack mail.app to get those? I can't find any policy of receipts.
Can i fix them somewhere in the app or is it going to be a terminal or other thing? <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
Comments
i use it but it mistakes as well so what's the point of keeping it forever training. .. or put all spam to trash and go fishing the mistaken ones once a day?