[horde] Fwd: Filters

[Ward Hammond]

You hit the nail on the head Andy.  Most of the "junk" coming in has  
the same "pretty" name but none of the actual email addresses repeat.   
Therefore the "blacklist" does not work as I have never recieved from  
the same address twice.  Most likely because they are creating bogus  
addresses for a one time spam.  So as I understand it, I should not  
bother trying to get horde to work as it's functionality is not there  
and need to go to a third party anti-spam program.  Thanks again for  
the information and assistance.

Sincerely,
Ward Hammond
Classic Reflections
21175 Tomball Parkway, #296
Houston, TX 77070
www.classicreflections.biz
281-290-0424


Quoting Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu>:

> On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Ward Hammond wrote:
>
>> Is there any one on the list that can help with this.  The designers
>> and/or programmers of horde seem to be unable to understand the problem.
>>
>> If I use the terms and fields in the address book, the name field is
>> not recognised in the filter system.  The "name" field seems to be
>> what is displayed in the "from" field of the mail inbox list.  This
>> "name" field contains a common name for multiple spams with different
>> actual "from" email addresses.
>>
>> I would like to know HOW to set the filter to recognise this "name"
>> field and stop this spam from showing up.
>>
>> It would also be nice if the filters could be set to run in background
>> and delete/block these as they arrive so I do not have to wait for
>> long periods after manually starting the filters or if it's set to
>> automatically run the filters at logon.
>
> Understood - you want to block on the "pretty name" portion of the To:
> address, not the actual email address.  For example:
>
> To: "Mary Smith" <mary at example.com>
>
> And you want to filter on the string "Mary Smith".
>
>
> I don't use filtering within Horde myself, so I can't describe how to
> create a filter for this.  It is generally better to perform the
> filtering during message delivery by the MTA, using a tool such as
> procmail or sieve.  Which tool you use depends on your MTA and mail
> server (we use postfix and Cyrus IMAPD here).
>
> Also, the filtering style you are trying to use will require a lot of
> manual additions to the filter list over time, as spammers change their
> tactics.  For more robust spam blocking using free/open-source tools,
> I'd recommend setting up your MTA to use various RBL lists and Spam
> Assassin tagging of message.
>
> 	Andy