Writing anti-spam rules

H

Henry

Folks:

I've followed the instructions at

http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/rules_junk.html#Anchor-Junksubjects

and done pretty well using just my own rules using junk subjects and body
phrases. Some questions:

1) Is there a way writing rules that will pass through html formatted
message (which some friends and colleagues use) but detect and allow me to
toss any messages containing graphics?

Ooops, there's exactly one exception: I get some useful material from a
Yahoo mailing list and these contain advertisement graphics. I guess I'd
need to sort these out first, right, via an earlier-run rule.

2) To what degree does the "message body" criteria monitor the content of
html messages? For example, I know I can detect "financial freedom" in a
text message, but I'm less sure if it is detectable as part of an html
message. (Yes, I'm aware of methods for obscuring text, e.g.
"F|r|e|e|d|o|m", and I don't expect method in the current generation to
detect these.)

It may be that the built-in Junk Mail Filter does some or all of this, but
the Office help isn't very specific about how it works, and neither the
Mactopia site or the KnowledgeBase seems to have anything about it. I
don't want to use it unless I understand it better. So...

3) Can anyone say more about what the "Junk Mail Filter" works, e.g. How it
detects forged headers, and so on?

Thanks,

Henry

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D

Diane Ross

It may be that the built-in Junk Mail Filter does some or all of this, but
the Office help isn't very specific about how it works, and neither the
Mactopia site or the KnowledgeBase seems to have anything about it. I
don't want to use it unless I understand it better. So...

If they explained how it worked, then the spammers would just work around
it.

Try SpamSieve.
 
H

Henry

Diane Ross:

Thanks for your post on this thread:

If they explained how it worked, then the spammers would just work around
it.

OK, so I'll not use it, and implement my own rules. Hence my other
questions about the rules mechanisms.
Try SpamSieve.

I'll try that if Entourage itself is not sufficiently flexible to do the job
reasonably will with a set of rules. Just as the FAQ suggests.

Thanks,

Henry

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