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:
"
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.