DoctorBill wrote:
I used to know this, but do not remember anymore. I can't get the
filter to work. Using SM 2.33.1.
Suddenly getting "Pandora Outlet" adverts and unsubscribing must not
be in the Chinese Lexicon !
DoctorBill
As noted separately, it's not a good idea to unsubscribe from something
that you didn't subscribe to. The spammer likely harvested your address
somehow, and once they have it, there's no way of getting them to
discard it.
For this kind of spam, it's difficult to build filters to discard --
spammers routinely vary both From: and Subject: lines to try to foil
filters, and unless you have a spammer that's uncommonly stupid, you'll
spend far more time trying to construct and maintain rules than you will
in actually discarding the stuff.
Your better bet is using the spam filters provided in Seamonkey. Those
are what are called "Bayesian" filters -- if you mark something as Junk,
then every message that is similar (and that's not just From: or
Subject: but the full collection of headers, body, and attachments) will
also be considered to be Junk. To be really effective, a Bayesian filter
needs to be given at least 100 samples of both spam and ham, and the
Bayesian filters done by Mozilla don't really allow for an "unknown"
condition. However, after you see three or four of these, and mark as
Junk, subsequent messages are likely to be automatically marked as Junk.
There's more than one way of designating a message as Junk or Not Junk,
when viewing the folder list pane:
- Use lower case "j" to mark as junk, capital "J" to mark as not junk
- Right click on the message, go to "Mark", then select either "junk" or
"not junk"
- If your folder summary is set to show message junk status, click on
that column -- a junk message will show a flame icon.
I believe that the default handling for junk mail is that if the filter
finds something that is evaluated as junk, or that you specifically mark
something as junk, then the message is immediately moved to the
account's Junk folder. That's how I have mine set, but there's a number
personal preferences that you can get to, by going to the account
settings, and checking options in Junk Settings.
When you're playing with this, you need to pay attention to your Junk
folder (to make sure that you're not getting legitimate messages thrown
in). If you get a legit message that turns up in the Junk folder, then
you need to make sure you mark that as Not Junk. Doing so will move the
message back to your inbox, as well as train the filter better
differentiate between junk and non-junk.
Smith
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