[GLLUG] msu.edu filter option

[Jeffrey Utter]

I don't believe they give that kind of flexability in the spam filter.
It's either on or it's not.  that's all you get. 

If you want more control over your own email, forward it to your personal machine and use procmail.  then you can have elm back too... but elm sucks.. sorry couldn't resist saying that.

I have also been on the new mail system since people could switch and I still only recieve a couple of spams a week.  So i don't think the new system is directly to blame for your misfortune. 

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:14:13PM -0500, Marcel Kunath wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> ever since pilot changed from pilot (I miss elm!) to mail.msu.edu my spam 
> count went from 3 per week to 30 per day even though I never used the new 
> account to mail anybody anymore. I used pilot to mail hundreds of people for 
> 
> 3 years before the change happened. 
> 
> Anyhow so they put this new spam filter option in place recently and I 
> figured I go and play with it. 
> 
> Anybody know how to make the thing work with regular expressions? 
> 
> I am trying to filter using the expression: 
> 
> /[a-zA-Z]+\.[a-zA-Z]+.*[a-zA-Z]+\.[a-zA-Z]+/ 
> 
> Mainly subject lines as follows: 
> 
> Subject: blah.blah gives you a big blah.blah 
> 
> Unfortunately its being picky with the regular expressions. Why couldn't 
> they give us a text interface to fill in regular expressions instead of 
> these stupid add/edit/delete buttons? 
> 
> What makes me wonder is how anybody at MSU could get any work done over the 
> past 6 months because my spam to no-spam ratio was 100:1. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Marcel 
> 
> 
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