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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / May 2004I'm trying to filter body text in Eudora Pro 4.2 but it won't work...??
I'm trying to use Eudora Pro 4.2 to do simple body text filtering but it won't work. It looks very straight forward. And I have filters set up for Subjectlines, etc., that work just fine. But the "body" request doesn't work. I open the program, go to Window, then Filters, then New, then under Header I pick ">>Body<<" and type in the desired "containing" then have it transfer matching email to Trash. No problem! Except it doesn't work. At all. What am I doing wrong? FYI, I'm trying to filter out this one evil spammer. I've changed my email and no longer get 100 spams a day. I'm down to lame emails from this one spammer. It's the drugs one---medications, prescriptions, drugs, pills---are all keywords. The spammer is cute because they mess up all the Subjectlines, but they do use consistent words in the body. So that's what I'm filtering for. The jerks can't garble it ALL up coz then it would be, well, useless---as if it isn't already. Sheesh. THANKS FOR ANY IDEAS!!! --JP > I'm trying to use Eudora Pro 4.2 to do simple body text filtering but > it won't work. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Except it doesn't work. At all. What am I doing wrong? First guess would be that some other filter already overrides this one. Go to the actual Filters window (under the Window menu). messages are affected by filters in the order the filters are placed there (you can grab 'n' drag them to movethe order). If you use filter creation the way you do, I believe the new filter ends up at the bottom of the list. If an earlier filter already affects it, then, depending on *how* that filter affects it, the message may never reach the next filter. Notably, when a filter moves a message to another mailbox, it applies an implicirt "skip rest". > FYI, I'm trying to filter out this one evil spammer. I've changed my > email and no longer get 100 spams a day. I'm down to lame emails from > this one spammer. It's the drugs one---medications, prescriptions, > drugs, pills---are all keywords. The spammer is cute because they mess > up all the Subjectlines, but they do use consistent words in the > body. So that's what I'm filtering for. And you're sure that you never receive valid email that contains any of those drugs you plan to filter on? What about someone menstioning the drugstore?  SignatureSander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/> Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!" PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!" > And you're sure that you never receive valid email that contains any of > those drugs you plan to filter on? What about someone menstioning the > drugstore? I just let a combination of mail-server-supplied SpamAssassin scanning and Eudora Bayseian filtering to tag mail (which is diverted into my Junk folder). I rarely like static filters for precisely the reason you've described. Of course, Eudora Pro 4.2 doesn't support that...but still. Perhaps there's a Bayseian plug-in for Eudora 4.2? SignaturePete Stephenson HeyPete.com > YI, I'm trying to filter out this one evil spammer. I've changed my > email and no longer get 100 spams a day. I'm down to lame emails from [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > up coz then it would be, well, useless---as if it isn't already. > Sheesh. Sander is probably right, that some other filter is affecting the message before this one. However, there's also the possibility that in fact all the body key words are garbled [1] or maybe you're trying to filter messages that match *all* keywords instead of matching *any* keyword. [1] The spammers often use HTML to obfuscate the key words, so for instance they might type "cialis" as "ci<some garbage>alis" which will probably render as "cialis" on the screen. They also throw in all sorts of garbage that doesn't fool the human eye by does stop the keyword filtering, like this sample from today's spam: "V-IA-G-RA, P-RO-Z-AC, Ha-n-g-ov-er pi-l-ls, Hu-m-an Gro-wth Ho-rm-one and much much more!" We can easily pick the keywords from this, but your keyword filter will not recognize them. SignatureKathy > > YI, I'm trying to filter out this one evil spammer. I've changed my > > email and no longer get 100 spams a day. I'm down to lame emails from [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Sander is probably right, that some other filter is affecting the > message before this one. You got it! But Sander is not right. It's the first filter. But... > However, there's also the possibility that in > fact all the body key words are garbled [1] Ah ha! More soon... > or maybe you're trying to > filter messages that match *all* keywords instead of matching *any* > keyword. Not this either. But... > [1] The spammers often use HTML to obfuscate the key words, so for > instance they might type "cialis" as "ci<some garbage>alis" which will > probably render as "cialis" on the screen. THAT'S IT! I didn't know how to show source code in Eudora Pro 4.2 (I still don't really), but I hit the 'blah blah blah' button and sure enough the JERKS had done just as you say! All kinds of <junk> appeared in all my keywords! ARGH! Hitmen, where are thee when we need ye! --JP |
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