Help setup filter for spam with my email in tag

americanadian · Cadet Joined: Jul 11, 2003 Posts: 3 Location: Canada

I send myself emails from work to home and I am therefore in my friends list. The problem is that I get spam marked as friend but sent from a Spam Jerk...

Spam Jerk <[email protected]> would show as friend since the email address in the tag marks <[email protected]> is my real email address.

Is there a way to block the "Spam Jerk" in my example and still allow my own email address to remain in the friend list? Possibly a filter or such?

I also send my self Cc: of important emails so that I can have a receipt of sorts so I use this alot.

Any ideas are most appreciated.

Regards

Larry

Hugh · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:40 pm Post subject:

Please, read this thread:

http://www.computercops.biz/postt7714.html

and Stan's answer (fourth msg from the top) in particular.

Hugh

americanadian · Cadet Joined: Jul 11, 2003 Posts: 3 Location: Canada

Thanks Hugh,
I had read through that thread earlier and thought it was a workable solution...I just thought that after a year that maybe they had made an improvement to the program so that it was'nt needed to have to add filters for my email address's.... I use different ones for the various domains I own and this could really be time consuming.
I will however try your suggestion and see how it works.
Thanks for the speedy reply!
Larry

americanadian · Cadet Joined: Jul 11, 2003 Posts: 3 Location: Canada

I am still getting spam with my name in the To and From of the emails like this:

To: "Mohamed Ailshire" <[email protected]>

Why is something so obvious so hard to get rid of?? I get probably 30 of these a day now and they are getting more frequent.

Any other ideas would be appreciated. I have been a registered owner of MailWasher Pro for quite a long time, and it really needs more monitoring than I would like. I have tried a different product IHateSpam and it is doing a fairly nice job of picking up on this type of spam, but I like MailWasher more as it opens the junk before I open Outlook so I have been pretty safe so far with avoiding viruses etc....

I just am getting tired of "hand holding" this everytime I open my email.

Thanks,

Larry

stan_qaz · Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:53 pm Post subject:

Why don't you just set up a filter to delete spam sent from your address that doesn't have your from line information correct? I use about a dozen profiles for sending mail and this took one e-mail from each to set up.

If you work in the filter file rather than the dialog box you can have more than the default number of rules in a filter, this is handy and the extra rules show up in the dialog box if you need to edit them once created in the file.

Ikeb · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 12:44 am Post subject:

Dealing with the "From:" field is quite different from dealing with the "To:" field. The only reason one should see one's own email address(es) in the "From:" field is when receiving a msg from oneself. Thus it's much easier to predict what should be seen in the header. In fact there are three or four "proof-positive verification" checks that can be made. Details have been posted elsewhere.

The "To:" field is a different matter altogether. Many folks send me mail when my actual name does not preceed my email address. And I can often recieve the msg where my email address is in the "Cc:" field BTW. If my name preceeds my email address, there's no guarantee that it's the spelling I placed with my "From:" address and that someone subsequently presumably saving in their address book. They could misspell my name or even give me an "affectionate" penname I suppose. In fact I sometimes use a different name (e.g. company name) for some accounts.

That said, a filter could be designed so as to ignore msgs (i.e. not consider as SPAM) wherein the user's proper name(s) preceeds the user's email address(es) or if nothing preceeds the user's email address(es) in either the "To:" or "Cc:" field, yet any other name preceeding one of the user's email addresses gets detected as SPAM.

Whew! Just defining the filter's objective has fried my brain! Christmas

Anyone up to the challenge?


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