Re: spam filters

From: Yngvar Folling (yngvar.folling@login.eunet.no)
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 12:44:51 +0100 (MET)

In article <0B7B14Fv5m4Z092yn@mundens.gen.nz>,
frankie@mundens.gen.nz (Frank G. Pitt) wrote:
> In article <W+v/0ou+SanB092yn@login.eunet.no>,
> yngvar.folling@login.eunet.no (Yngvar Folling) wrote:

> >How? It seems like the FILTER program insists on *some* rule or
> >another. How do you move *all* of them? Check for the existence of a
> >mandatory field such as Message-ID?

> Simple, write a filter that mathces _everything_ anmd ensure it is
> applied _after_ the filter that sends stuff to your INBOX
> (The builtin filter that comes with Yarn proceses the filters in order )

You miss my question. How do you write a rule that matches everything?
The filter rules do not seem to accept regular expressions, so .*
doesn't work. I already said why searching for @ in the address doesn't
always work either (and besides the messages from the same ISP, I do get
malformed messages that *lack* a From field). Setting a rule to search
for "Message-ID" in the header seems to work, though.

Yngvar