Re: Spam filtering in Eudora (Was Good local ISP?)

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From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 15:06:24 PDT


Tom Holub wrote:
>It's been a while since I fiddled with Eudora, but I think it runs
>filters in sequence.

  That's my understanding, as well.

>So one thing you can do which will filter
>the vast majority of your spam is:
>
>Filter 1: All mail sent directly to my address (To: or Cc:) goes into
>my inbox.
>Filters 2 through n: Mail sent directly to mailing lists I'm
> legitimately subscribed to goes into my inbox, or individual
> mailboxes.
>Filter n+1: Anything not caught by filters 1 through n goes into SPAM
> mailbox.

  An elegant approach, and one that requires far less effort to manage
than filtering by specific headers or body text believed to be
associated with spam e-mail messages.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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