T
Thore Schmechtig
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.
(NOTE: As I use the German version of OE 6, I had to re-translate the
names of menu items, options et cetera. I hope it's understandable...
if not, or if you want to help me improve this tiny FAQ, please email
me with your suggestions. Thank you)
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 difficult process):
*** BEGIN ***
Open the email rules: Extras - Message Rules - Email
Create a new rule, setting the following characteristics:
To- or CC-Field does NOT contain your valid email address (to set the
NOT, you need to click on the Options-button in the box where you can
enter the address)
Action for all emails that fit the above: Delete from server
*** 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 ususally 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.
*** 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!
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.
(NOTE: As I use the German version of OE 6, I had to re-translate the
names of menu items, options et cetera. I hope it's understandable...
if not, or if you want to help me improve this tiny FAQ, please email
me with your suggestions. Thank you)
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 difficult process):
*** BEGIN ***
Open the email rules: Extras - Message Rules - Email
Create a new rule, setting the following characteristics:
To- or CC-Field does NOT contain your valid email address (to set the
NOT, you need to click on the Options-button in the box where you can
enter the address)
Action for all emails that fit the above: Delete from server
*** 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 ususally 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.
*** 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!
For testing, create a rule that does not delete, but just