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Add regular expression junk filtering to Mail.app
Authored by: c-o2 on Nov 27, '03 06:23:01PM

Being a simpleton to these things, forgive me, but... though your solution has enhanced my junk mail situation (it was getting intolerable, Mail.app just didn't get any junk), I am now receiving about 150 junk mails of the same junk mail message every hour... multiply this by new junk coming in at a rate of about 3 an hour and you can guess how many messages reside in my Junk Mail box after a couple of hours!

Like I said, now every piece of spam goes to my Junk thanks to the Applescript (great!)... but since installing it, the aforementioned is perplexing me.

One thing I noticed... in one of your screenshots, your Rule configuration screen has three rules applied. The first, I could not match... the dropdown menu after 'all' states 'Received'... I don't have the 'Received' option! (OS X 10.3.1)... and I can't figure out what character you've inputted in the text box of the corresponding first rule.

Some one show me what I am doing wrong ;)



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Add regular expression junk filtering to Mail.app
Authored by: blgrace on Nov 27, '03 07:24:05PM

I'm getting the same thing. It's because the same message isn't being delted from the mail server so you just keep getting it EVERY time mail.app checks mail. I'm guessing you have set yours to check every hour. Mine checks every 5 minutes. My ISP's mail server won't let me telnet in to list the offending email and delete it, so I'm having to resort to using Mail Beacon to log in and delete the messsage.
Anyone know how to fix this? I looked through the Apple Script code and I can see a possible section that needs modifying - but I have no idea on how to do it



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Add regular expression junk filtering to Mail.app
Authored by: blgrace on Nov 27, '03 07:28:36PM

You have to add the "Recieve" header yourself.....just scroll to the bottom of the rules list thingo and you will see "Add Header" just type in "Recieved" and click Add . . . then put a period in the "contains" field, like the screen shot. There is a link to a help page.. something like "If you can't see what's going on in the screenshot... click here"



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Add regular expression junk filtering to Mail.app
Authored by: c-o2 on Nov 28, '03 02:58:31AM

Yep my check every minute (just meant I receive on average (prior to JunkMatcher ;o) ) 3 spams an hour)... check my machine after a good nights sleep... 3200 junk mail messages!

Thanks for the hint with the Received thing. Will do it now.



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