Hello Coyle306, On or about Wednesday, July 09, 2003 at 07:54:46GMT -0400 (which was 6:54 AM in the tropics where I live) Coyle306 posted:
C> I have good success putting my spam catcher _after_ filters that C> look for stuff I want to keep and read. The problem is, the (dozens of) [EMAIL PROTECTED] are in groups I want to keep messages from, but yet may contain the trigger phrases by which I determine to dump them. C> In other words, pick off the stuff you want to read _first_, route C> it to the appropriate folders, then run what's left through C> the spam filter(s). The filters ARE working for this mail account, as any of the ones with the "trigger phrases" have gone to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] folder. In the OTHER affected account, it is the _EXACT_ repetitive phrases that get caught, not individual words. I found the [EMAIL PROTECTED] uses hundreds of different addresses, most of them bogus, but yet all 'subscribed' to the list somehow. The other way they get in is by 'spoofing' legitimate list member's addresses. C> If the spam filter is first, this good message would get C>trashed. No legitimate sender would have the EXACT phrases, so this wouldn't happen, but I do check the TRASH folder before deleting messages and compressing the folder. In the affected account, if I see any legitimate messages that get erroneously trapped, I re-filter that folder and they go where they are supposed to be! This is the behavior I can't understand. I just re-filtered the TRASH folder and 75 legitimate messages that HAD been flagged as spam got filtered to the PROPER folders. C> Known filter(s) C> Spam filter(s) C> Unknown filter My arrangement is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] filters (up to 7 right now, as there is a limit of 25 alternate entries per filter (or so I have been told) and I seem to have confirmed it Known filters Inbox for anything else. This has worked for me as I get a lot of legitimate mail from unknown senders due to my consultancy work, as well as my radio program. -- Warmest tropical wishes, Spike Quote for the moment: "In wildness is the preservation of the world." Henry David Thoreau, Walking (1862) /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign - Against HTML Mail \ / If it aint a webpage it shouldn't be HTML. X Say NO! to bloatmail - ban HTML mail! / \ Ask Spikey, he hates everything (HTML). -------------------------------------------------- Using TheBat! v1.62r hamstrung by Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1' -------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
