Re: Message rule for Spam
- From: Janetb <Janetb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:41:02 -0700
Dear N. Miller,
Thank you very much for your last post---you were the only respondent who
recognized that my question was how to make a message rule for headers other
than "From:", "To:", "Cc:", and "Subject:" and not a lack of knowledge on my
part regarding construction and use of these standard message rules....
Another form my question takes is how to read an email's Properties window,
as most of the information there is Greek to me....I chose the rfc822 having
no idea whatever what it is, simply because it appears in all spam mail I
checked and in none of the legitimate mail I checked. What Properties data
WILL enable me to identify the common source of similar ads which keep coming
from different adresses? These ads have their message in the form of an image
which highlights as a block rather than proper text, and constantly changing
addresses and subjects. Is there no way to refer to the block in the message
body?
Thanks most of all for letting know that MS OE can't provide such a filter
(assuming there is no way to refer to the block in the message body). I
looked at Pegasus and Mercury and was totally overwhelmed. What would each
replace on my present system? I am totally ignorant regarding mail servers
(??), etc.....:-).....
Since I am used to OE, I would most like some sort of simple accessory which
performs this one function. I have 2KPro--not XP---if that makes a difference.
Many thanks for the help!
Janet
"N. Miller" wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:31:02 -0700, Janetb wrote:.
Today I received the same spam advertisemant from 4 different addresses. I
checked the Properties of all to find what they had in common. The item I
thought may be the culprit is
Original-recipient: rfc822;janetb@xxxxxxxxxx
This line appears on other spam advertisement Properties as well and does
not seem to appear on my legitimate emails. The second address
(janeteb@xxxxxxxxxx) is my email address.
How would I form message rule for the rfc822 to rule out advertisements from
this source?
That line is added by your mail server to show the intended delivery
email address. It is useful when you get a "Bcc:" email list which
doesn't have your email address in the "To:" field; you know that you
_were_ the intended recipient, that your mail server didn't just drop
the message into your Inbox out of the blue.
RFC 822 refers to the older Internet standard (RFC 2822 replaces it) for
email message format. Together with RFC 2821 (replacing RFC 821), which
covers message transport, these two RFCs pretty much define how the
email system works.
In any case, MS Outlook Express can't filter on most header lines. Other
than "From:", "To:", "Cc:", and "Subject:", there are no header lines
which MSOE can filter on. This is a design weakness with MSOE, not in
the message format. I use Pegasus Mail v.4.41 as my email client, and
Mercury/32 v4.01b as a local mail server; each is able to filter on
_any_ header line in an email message. There are usually better header
lines to filter on than the "Original-Recipient:" header line.
--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
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