Home Effective Spam Filtering With Eudora

 


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THE FILTERS
 1 Virus Attached?
 2 Duplicate Fm-To
 3 Whitelist (Passlist)  
 4 Friendly Domains
 5 Newsletters
 6 List Subscriptions
 7  Keywords
 8 Personality
 9 Bogus Address
10 Username in
   Subject
 

11 Click Here
12 !!!!!!!!!!!!
13 Remote Images  
    or Database Links
  
14 Bcc From
    Unknown
 
15 Bad Word List #1
16 Bad Word List #2
17 Tracking Codes
    in Subject

18 Bad Word List #3
19 Bad Word List #4
20 Bad Word List #5
21 Too Many HTTP's
22 Adult Links

23 Bogus Hotmail,
    AOL and Yahoo

"REGEXP" INFO

MOST EFFECTIVE
    SEARCH TERMS

LINKS

FILTER VERBS

Other Interesting
Eudora Filters:

Numerical User
   Name

HTML Contents
Asian Characters
Blank Subject
Secret Keyword
   With Auto-Reply

 

EUDORA SPAM FILTER 10
User Name in the Subject Header

 

Catches: Cecilw followed by a hyphen, comma, semi-colon, colon, exclamation mark, space, tab, or newline.  (Intentionally does not catch "cecilw@")

My email user name is "cecilw", but none of my friends call me that. In fact, no one I know would ever call me that. And yet spammers, in their silly attempts to weasel their way into my inbox to peddle their wares and whores, seem to think that if only they call me "cecilw", I'll believe they're my long-lost buddy from Timbuktu or something. Kinda makes me wonder if the spammers are related to George and Yortuk Festrunk...  So email from anyone I don't know that has my username in the subject line or the body of the email is guaranteed spam. Here's a recent one for example: 
"cecilw Lose 10-12 Pounds in 2 DAYS GUARANTEED".

For best results, substitute your own username in this filter.

 

Match: Incoming and Manual
Header «Subject»
Verb: contains
Value: CECILW

Or

 
Header «Body»
Verb: matches regexp (case insensitive_
Value: CECILW[-,;:![:space:]]
Actions: Transfer To Spam.mbx
   Make Label 1
  Make Priority Highest
  Skip Rest

Breaking it down:

The [:space:] thing looks for a single space, or a tab, or a newline (carriage return-linefeed pair). It needs to be lower-case as shown, and seems to require an extra set of the square brackets around it to get it to work. I've added the punctuation characters hyphen, comma, colon, semi-colon, and exclamation inside the outer set of brackets, so it looks like this "[-,;:![:space:]]"

The "Make Label" and Make Priority actions are optional but are very useful in determining which filter caught any particular email.

I group this filter together with the previous filter's label color, since they both filter on incorrect use of my username.