On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:06:03 -0800, "N. Miller"
wrote:

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:21:00 -0700, V Green wrote:

Any way to filter this gawdawful penny stock
crapola that has started jammin' up my Inbox
over the last few days?

You know the one, where From is:

Firstname Lastname

and the Subject is:

Firstname

Can't filter it with the stuff in the message body
(too bad, as they all contain stuff that can be used
to do that) as filtering in the body causes the entire
msg. to be downloaded to the Inbox.

Can't figure out any way to filter based on
From + Subject.

I'm currently getting 60 - 100 a day of this dung.

This works for me:

| If header "T" contains " LogicalAnd ""
| If header "T" contains "First" Goto "End"
| If header "T" contains " LogicalAnd ""
| If header "T" contains "First MI Last" Goto "End"
| If header "T" contains " LogicalAnd ""
| If header "T" contains "First MI. Last" Goto "End"
| If header "T" contains " AddHeader "X-Text-Classification: spam [No/Wrong name]"
| If header "T" contains " Move "spamfighter"

Caveat: If users _don't/won't_ put your proper name in the "To:" field,
their email will be diverted to "spamfigher".

These are not MSOE rules, but might work if modified. Try this:

Where the To line contains people:
Where the To line conatins poeple: "First"

Then click on the Options button and select:

2. Message matches all of the people below.

Then select the action, "Stop processing more rules". That will force MSOE
to bail on a match. Build two more sets for "First MI Last", and "First MI.
Last". Immediately following these rules create one more rule:

Where the To line contains people: ". For a rule action use a
move to a folder. Because you want that move to take place on a match, this
rule must also be followed by the "Stop Processing more rules" option.

The "Stop processing more rules" option is critical, here. You want MSOE to
bail on processing rules when matching your email address _and_ proper name.
You also want MSOE to move the fourth match. If you don't use "Stop
processing more rules", MSOE will fall through the rules without acting.

I will repeat the warning, he If your correspondents won't, or can't
include your proper name on the same line with your email address in the
"To:" field, their email _will_ get filtered into the diversion folder.


Good post!
Unfortunately, I have about 8 or 9 email boxes that OE polls and are
'good' email addresses. Can this type of filtering work with more than
one address?
I also figure that the means
yahoo.com being used as an example.

I have tried the 'if not equal to my real address' thing and was not
too successful. I hate to futz around with external 'filters' or
filtering software add-ons and am looking for something like you
posted.

Thanks
Joe

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