Conference chefs::ms-exchange

    
    	When you say it "takes a wildcard", do you mean that it says that
    	wildcards can be used ... or just that it lets you type "*" in the
    	"From" field?
    
    	If wildcards don't work, it might consider the "*" to be just an-
    	other character in the username.
    

    I think that's right. Try specifying the filter as @savetrees.com
    without the asterisk. I don't use an Exchange client, but with
    Eudora Pro's filtering, I can specify 'pbeck' in the from filter
    without any other syntax and it matches any mail I've sent from any
    source. Generally, the filters are substring matches.

>        wildcards can be used ... or just that it lets you type "*" in the

well, it took the "*" character, which I didn't even think it would :-)

>    I think that's right. Try specifying the filter as @savetrees.com
>...
>    source. Generally, the filters are substring matches.

I'll give this a shot.  I didn't guess that it was substrings. The 
Help isn't very helpful here.

    For external junk mail coming into Digital...
    
    
        <<< GYRO::SYS$SYSDEVICE:[NOTES$LIBRARY]INTERNET_TOOLS.NOTE;1 >>>
                              -< Internet Tools >-
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Note 485.30                Internet junk mail sighted                   30 of 30
VARDAF::CHURCH "Dave Church@VBE (DTN 828-6125)"   3 lines  18 Apr 97 (Fri)  5:48
                          -< folks are working on it >-
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    The message I have, from the Corporate Information Security Group, is 
    that they're aware of the issues and are working actively with the
    telecom group to limit the "access" of these types of spam mailings...
    

re: substring matches.

works great.  now to compile a list of the spammers.... here's who 
I've got thus far, anyone wanting to add to this list please feel 
free

mondyspider.com
hotmail.com
warehouse.com
savetrees.com
netlove.com
usa.net
samalama.com
genesisnetwork.net
quantcom.com

    
    	cyberpromo.com
    

Is there a way to import someone else's SPAM rules from their 
Exchange client into mine, to save re-inventing the wheel!

Greg

    
    
    �<<< Note 1009.5 by VMSNET::mickey.alf.dec.com::s_vore "Smile, Mickey's watching!  [email protected]" >>>
    
    Do you consider all mail from usa.net to be junk mail?
    
    I ask because I have just started using usa.net as my email forwarding
    service and they explicitly state that they do not condone spam mail
    from their domain! They even offer advise on what to do if you receive
    junk email on their server!
    
    Regards,
    
    Jim

	If you are using Outlook and the Rules Wizard from
	www.microsoft.com/outlook , you can export and import
	your rules.

							mike

re: the wizard

I found it clunky to use, but it does do an import/export and
you can disable it and go back to the "non-wizard" interface
if you prefer.

re: usa.net

sorry if I end up including domains in my anti-spam rules that
real folks use; the ones I listed have been ones from which I've
received spam but not "real" mail (I don't filter out aol.com,
for example, because I've gotten plenty of legitimate mail from
there along with the junk).

    My inbox assistant isn't coping with spam, I have it set as:
    
    FROM: @i-machine.com; @succeed.vipro.com; @02368.com; @savetree.com;
    @savetrees.com; @strutyourstuff.com; @iceland.it.earthlink.net;
    @rader.catch22.com; @juno.com; @bigfoot.com; @mlr4lsndr.com
    
    
    But I've received mail today from [email protected], NS
    [email protected] which wasn't auto moved to my SPAM folder.
    
                                    
    Anyone know why??
    
    Greg

take out the "@" sign.

Sometimes mine seems to not process messages, randomly.  Of 5 
messages from a particular address, 3 or 4 might get deleted 
automatically but 1 or 2 still make it into my inbox.  *sigh*

Took out the @ but it still didn't work, where have you put your 
addresses, which part of the rule?

Also got spam mail apparently from vbemdf.vbde.dec.com!!

Greg

> Also got spam mail apparently from vbemdf.vbde.dec.com!!

PMDF (vbemdf.vbe.dec.com is one of the PMDF gateways) will
insert the local postmaster address into the From field if
that field is empty (or invalid), since MR won't allow
an empty field.

I'm still having problems with the inbox assistance not working. Is 
this a 'known' bug? It seems to sometimes work on SPAM addresses, and 
sometimes not.

Greg

It works for me in Outlook.

			Steve

I've only been using Inbox Assistant to file messages to
mailing lists (so filing based on the To field).  What I
found was that Exchange seemed to be only parsing the 
Display name, not the actual Internet address.  So, e.g.
if people sent mail to "[email protected]", it would
be refiled automatically.  If they'd set up a nickname,
e.g. "Info-PMDF" <[email protected]>, the rule wouldn't 
catch it.

Could that be the cause of some failures to junk spam mail?

Today, I got what I'd call junk mail and it's from:
	Display Name: 	L. East
	E-Mail address:	[email protected]

I'm not at all sure this would have been caught if I'd had
earthfriends.com in my Inbox Assistant rule.