Re: [SLE] Spam

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 12:52, Guenter Lichtenberg wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 January 2006 10:05, Peter Collier wrote:
> > I'm getting hammered by a lot of emails which have different
> > subject lines and a different sender. Kmail displays it in plain
> > text, does not say that it is a html message which can be viewed if
> > you click here but there is html view available if scroll down to
> > the description box, below the email.
>
> Hi
> could it be that you get a text and a html version? Then the default
> behaviour of kmail is to display the text message. You could unset
> this behaviour globally (which I would not recommend, certainly not
> for spam) or on a folder-by-folder base. I do the latter for certain
> few trusted email senders after moving them to a folder 'HTML' with a
> 'From' filter. I can then read the mails directly in HTML format.
>
> > "ListPrice: $550.00
> >
> > I'm running suse 10.0 OSS on a standalone machine. Using Kmail.
> > (Direct access via kmail to pop and stmp from my isp). Do I set a
> > filter on
>
> I do the same...
>
> > body or message, containing the listprice etc quote from above, to
> > mark as spam? Or could that compromise some valid emails where I
> > have requested details on say holidays etc from somewhere else?
>
> Hard to say - depends on the emails you have on the system. You could
> do a filtering and move the messages into a folder 'Junk' or so
> instead of deleting them (I do that with bogofilter classified spam).
> Then you could still check if you 'misclassified' (is that a word?)
> important emails. If you do a filtering on 'body' I suspect it will
> slow down kmail.
>
> Anyway I noticed that bogofilter picks up spam mails more or less
> quickly after you have them classified manually as spam a few
> times...
>
> gl

OK, thanks for the tips everyone. I'll keep classifying as spam for now
and see how it picks them up. I do have kmail set up to move spam as
unread, to a spam folder, where I can check to make sure I don't want
them. I've done that because once in a blue moon, an odd spam email has
some interest.

Peter C

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