Re: how to efficiently fight against spam with the bat!
Sunday, November 10, 2002, 2:25:35 AM, Mitch wrote: It's not just for filtering spam - you can filter your e-mail on ANYTHING. I've been playing with it a couple of hours, and I've got it set up to take over all my e-mail filtering. Seems to be working out pretty well - it already knows where to put my mailing list mail and this is after filtering a mere 14 messages. Pretty impressive. ... I'm really very impressed with POPinfo. This is what sounds so great about it, the ability to recognise many different things about email that static filters just can't . The only problem with using it as a perl script, is that once you've set it up initially it then runs using just that batch of emails as a base. What it really needs is to be integrated into the mail client, that way when it misses something, or gets it wrong, you can tell it to correct it's database when you move the email to the correct folder. I think MSN 8 uses this, but perhaps only for spam. What I'm sure everyone wants is for this to be included in the bat. I get the impression that the code isn't actually that difficult to implement, and it could use the existing user's folders to start off it's words database. Is there a request feature thing somewhere where we can ask ritlabs for this? -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! 1.62/Beta5 on XP Pro Current version is 1.61 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: how to efficiently fight against spam with the bat!
Sunday, November 10, 2002, 6:07:44 PM, Mitch wrote: The documentation is unclear on this point, but you CAN train it on incoming e-mails. You go to a page marked history on the configuration page, where you see a list of all the e-mails you've received recently, along with a pull-down of which bucket they were classified into. If you change the bucket in the pull-down, you can train the software to recognize the correct bucket. That sounds good, I may well have to try it now. Why does my computer conspire to stop me doing work? -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! 1.62/Beta5 on XP Pro To err is human; To moo is bovine. Current version is 1.61 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: how to efficiently fight against spam with the bat!
Saturday, November 9, 2002, 8:52:35 PM, rick wrote:
after 2 days it is working quite well. It uses probability instead of
static filters. Works wonderful so far.
Are you just using it to filter spam? I was interested in replacing
all my bat rules with this, but I don't know how well it would work.
Given that my current filters get 90% of my spam anyway, I'm not sure
it's worth it.
To the original message - I rely solely on filters, and get just a few
spam messages in my inbox. I haven't had any false positives yet, but
I check every few days.
My spam filter is mainly a list of things that almost always occur
with spam: mortgage Valued customer \$\d{1,}(\.|,)?\d* (that
last regexp catches $100 etc. , I seem to get a lot of casino spam)
If spam slips through the net, I look for identifying features to add
to the filter. It works so far, but for people who get a lot of spam
it might not work as well.
Oh, I should say that the rule excludes anyone in my address book. I
considered whitelisting any message that includes my name in the 'to'
header, but can't figure out the best way to do it.
--
Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Bat! 1.62/Beta5 on XP Pro
How come abbreviated is such a long word?
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Re: On read filter.
Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 11:29:49 PM, you wrote: Is there anyway that if you hit delete, it bins it rather than ignoring me and filtering it to it's folder anyway? I don't really use read filters, but something just sprung to mind so I thought I'd suggest it. Could you set up a filter that deletes the mail as the first read filter, set it not to continue with other filters and then assign it a hot key? Then instead of hitting delete you would just hit whatever key you assigned that filter and it would bin the message and avoid other filters. [waits for someone to tell him why this won't work] -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! 1.62/Beta5 on XP Pro Cooking lesson #1: don't fry bacon in the nude. Current version is 1.61 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Filter that strikes out messages that have been replied to
Saturday, October 5, 2002, 6:42:43 PM, you wrote: I'm afraid strikeout is not possible, but maybe you can live with colours. I can use strikeout here. When editing colour groups I have bold, italic, underlined and strikeout. I use it to mark spam and it works fine. -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! 1.62/Beta5 on XP Pro A Social Life ? Where do I download that from ? Current version is 1.61 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Mass delete HTML attachments?
Thursday, October 3, 2002, 9:53:48 PM, you wrote: I have no use for the HTML portion of the message and would like to automate their deletion. Is there any way to do this for my 2000+ old messages? I'm not sure if this would work, but it's what occurs to me. If you have told TB to store attachments in a separate directory, then I think all the HTML files would be in there. Deleting them would be very easy if you want to get rid of all of them. For just the ebay ones you could search for all files containing a certain text string and delelte all of those. If you want to automate deletion of the html files as they come in, you could create a filter for your ebay emails and tell the filter to execute a batch file each time. It would be simple to have a 'delete all html files' batch command, I'm not sure about deleting all recent ones but maybe it could be done with a clever command line utility. Given Thomas' response, maybe I've missed something and this won't work. Unfortunately I've got my attachments stored in message bodies so can't really try it out. Good luck :) -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! 1.62/Beta5 on XP Pro If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. Current version is 1.61 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Filtering Mails.
Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 4:00:31 AM, you wrote: Hi fellow TB! users, I'm after a touch of advice for filtering mails from 5 other accounts into one inbox. What is the best way to filter as I also want to add an auto-reply to the mails that are forwarded from the 5 accounts into the one. I have my old email account filtering mails to my new one. I have one final filter in the account which looks for . in the kludges (so it will find every message not done already). This *redirects* the email to my main email address. With local delivery enabled (from network and admin box) these emails are sent straight through the bat. The redirected mail then arrives in my main email account, and runs through all the filters I have there. TB adds a Resent-from: in the header, referring to the account the email was redirected from, which allows me to filter these emails and give them a colour group. So I know that all blue emails in my inbox came from my old account. A simpler method would be to just put one filter in each account you want to forward from. This would catch all mail (eg look for . in kludges) and move it to the inbox of the main account. You wouldn't need to bother with redirecting or local delivery options. The only problem is that the mail won't pass through the filters of the main account. If you don't use filters on these emails then this way would be fine. Do I put a filter on each account, or can I do one that suites all? You'll need a filter on each account you want to forward from When they then arrive in the inbox they were forwarded to, I then want to filter them into various subfolders. You could either use multiple filters in the original account, and send them to the folder directly. Or if you already have the filters in the main account, a single redirecting with local delivery as above would be the best option. Would I be correct in thinking that all these filters will be based on 'Incoming Mail' filter? Yes, as long as you want them to go straight to the account, which I would assume you do. Also, when exactly is the 'Read Messages' filter triggered? Is it when the message is first opened, or when I close it? The reason I ask, is because I don't use a preview pane or after 5 seconds. I prefer the double click to open method. Don't know about this I'm afraid, I don't use read message filters I hope that all made sense and looking forward to receiving assistance. Hope this helps :) -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! 1.62/Beta5 on XP Pro Cooking lesson #1: don't fry bacon in the nude. Current version is 1.61 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: The Bat and Hotmail
Monday, September 23, 2002, 2:46:53 PM, you wrote: Hello TBUDL, Just wondering if anyone has come up with a method of accessing Hotmail email with The Bat? http://www.boolean.ca/hotpop/ has been mentioned before on the list. Haven't tried it out personally, but it looks like what you want. -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! 1.62/Beta5 on XP Pro War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. Current version is 1.61 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Opening awkward URL from filter
I'm trying to set up a filter to automatically open up URLs that I get when someone replies to me on a forum. I've borrowed the method from the Spamcop processing filter (saving a regexped part of the email to a batch file then running it) The problem is that the urls contain '' characters so I want to enclose the url within in the batch file. I want to make a batch file something like: c:\Program Files\Crazy Browser\Crazy Browser.exe http://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.php?threadid=44509goto=newpost; [ignoring wrapping of course] I've currently got the following as my template for the saved email: c:\Program Files\Crazy Browser\Crazy Browser.exe %- %REGEXPTEXT=http://www.neowin.net.*?\n; How can I get marks around the url? I've tried them withing the REGEXPTEXT, outside it, and escaped by \. None of them work... Any help appreciated! -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! 1.62/Beta5 on XP Pro I like cats too. Let's exchange recipes. Current version is 1.61 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: AVG virus checker and TB
Sunday, September 8, 2002, 10:54:30 AM, you wrote: Hello , Just installed TB and have found it to excellent (this from OE). I would like to continue using AVG virus checker for my E-mail and cannot find a way to do this. Help or advice on another Virus checker would be gratefully received. I've got an AVG plugin for TB, I think I got it from the AVG home page. I sometimes have a problem with TB not loading it at startup, though I think this is because I just have too much trying to startup with my computer and it can't cope! -- Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] I like cats too. Let's exchange recipes. Current version is 1.61 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
