Re: [SWEN tiny FAQ] How to filter Swen mails with M$OE 6

From: YO (yo_at_mynet.com)
Date: 09/25/03 

Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:47:54 GMT

It works!! it works!!
Thank you !! Thank you!!
"Thore Schmechtig" <WRITETOcommoner@carcosa.de> wrote in message
news:bkunnu$61jqd$1@ID-87341.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Greetings,
>
> since Swen.A first appeared in the wild around September 18th 2003,
> many people have asked how to filter the emails Swen wildly sends to
> just about everyone who ever posted in any newsgroup. It's a bit
> tricky, at first glance it seems impossible, but it can be done.
>
> Here's how.
>
> Swen emails unfortunately differ in From-, To- and Subject-field, but
> you will always find your own valid email-address in the
> Envelope-to-field of the email's header. OE unfortunately is unable to
> filter emails by the Envelope-to-content, but this doesn't matter. If
> you read the above carefully you see that:
>
> Every email that arrives in your inbox and does NOT have your valid
> email address in the To- or CC-field is almost guaranteed to be a
> Swen-mail (exceptions see below).
>
> To filter them out, do the following (tested with OE 6, earlier
> versions may need a slightly different process):
>
>
>
> *** BEGIN ***
>
>
>
> (Thanks to Phil who helped me with using the correct English names as I
> use the German version of OE - the following is a quote from his email)
>
> Open the email rules: Tools\Message Rules\Mail
>
> Create a new rule.
>
> In the first window (Select the conditions for your rule) select the
> following:
> -Where the To line contains people
> -Where the CC line contains people
>
> In the second window (Select the Actions for your rule) select the
> following:
> -Delete it from server
>
> In the third window (Rule Description...)
> -Click on "contains people" and enter your email address, then click on
> "Add"
> -Your email has now been added, select the email address and click on
> "Options"
> -Select the second radio button "Message does not contain the people
> below"
> then "OK" to close.
>
> (end quote from Phil)
>
>
>
> *** END ***
>
>
>
> Presto - you're done! OE will still have to download the _header_ data,
> but not the message body with its 150K worm executable. Ergo you have
> much less problems.
>
> NOTE THE FOLLOWING:
>
> Mailing lists - at least all lists I know - use a very similar
> procedure to send their contents to you, inserting your valid address
> in the Envelope-to-field and the basic email address of the list in the
> To-field, along with usually adding a list-typical string to the
> subject. Obviously this will create false positives with the
> above-mentioned email rule that would delete the list messages along
> with Swen.
> Therefore, if you participate in mailing lists, I suggest you do the
> following:
>
>
>
> *** BEGIN ***
>
>
>
> If you haven't done so until now, create an extra folder for each of
> your lists.
>
> Create one email rule for each of your lists with the following:
>
> Subject contains the list-typical string, To-field contains the basic
> list email address
> Actions to take: Move to the folder created for that list, do not
> process any more rules for that mail.
>
> Move all these rules to somewhere ABOVE the rule that deletes
> Swen-mails from the server.
>
> (For the details on doing all this, see the description of the
> Swen-filtering rule above)
>
>
>
> *** END ***
>
>
>
> That way, your mailing list messages will be moved to their own folders
> while the pesky Swen mails will die while still on your provider's
> server.
>
> Hope to have helped...
>
> Tocis (commoner AT carcosa DOT de)
> To reply, include HI-AK 523 in the subject or else your mail will be
> deleted!

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