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Eliminating HTML Spam
Category: Computers > Software Asked by: respree-ga List Price: $5.00 |
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17 Jan 2004 11:41 PST
Expires: 31 Jan 2004 10:29 PST Question ID: 297447 |
Greetings. I am trying to find a solution to identify, eliminate, delete or filter all incoming HTML formatted emails. I have my Outlook Express (v. 6) settings at Plain Text emails (send and receive). The spammers are driving me nuts and they're becoming increasingly smarter on how to outsmart email filters! I don't see how to accomplish this is OE (which would be my first choice), so I'd be open to any plug in programs that work with OE6 that would simply delete them once an HTML formatted email is received. Thanks for your help. |
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Re: Eliminating HTML Spam
From: nelson-ga on 17 Jan 2004 16:34 PST |
Not all junk mail is HTML. Not all HTML mail is spam. |
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Re: Eliminating HTML Spam
From: arcadesdude-ga on 17 Jan 2004 19:08 PST |
I'm not sure if you can do this in OE but if you can filter your email bodies (like where the html would be) to delete all emails not containg spaces (that's ascii character 0x20, or 32d), it would block the html spam. (Since a space would be in all plain text emails (in other words it would not allow you to see ANY html emails). I've filtered my email like this and it stops all html spam emails. |
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Re: Eliminating HTML Spam
From: respree-ga on 17 Jan 2004 19:43 PST |
Thank you nelson-ga for those pearls of wisdom. =) For the purposes of this particular account I'm using (used for corresponding with customers), all HTML is SPAM. My filters take care of the rest. |
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Re: Eliminating HTML Spam
From: respree-ga on 17 Jan 2004 20:32 PST |
arcadesdude: Thanks for your suggestions, however, in OE, it can only search for words within text body 'containing' words you choose to filter. Below is an example of what an incoming HTML email looks like to me (in plain text mode), just some cryptic words that make no sense (not sure what the purpose of these words are, but virtually all the HTML spam has them). Both the subject line and body 'appear' to have nothing to do with what they're selling/promoting (i.e. viagra, mortgage rates, enlarge your *enis, etc.). Thanks for the comment, though. *************** From: "Named blanked" <nameblanked@web.de> To: <nameblanked@mydomain.com> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 8:27 PM Subject: Re: WPS, turning his gaze withal cryptographer clean boletus embower road dyspeptic compulsory allude cushman aspheric lawgiving manual resident carolina diploma aiken alabama twa |
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Re: Eliminating HTML Spam
From: haversian-ga on 18 Jan 2004 22:41 PST |
OE might suck enough that it's impossible. In fact, my first reaction was "Junk that piece of crap and get a real mail client", but that might not be possible for you (sympathy). Assuming the best of OE, simply delete all email whose body contains <html> or <body> or <h1> or a few other common HTML tags. A lot of HTML spam doesn't conform to anything resembling the HTML specs, so you can't assume a html tag or a body tag or a head. Also, anything that properly identifies Content-type: text/html (many spams ID themselves as text, but are really HTML) can be junked as well. |
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Re: Eliminating HTML Spam
From: respree-ga on 19 Jan 2004 08:41 PST |
Thanks for your comment, haversian-ga. Unfortunately, in a plain text mode, OE automatically strips off anything HTML related, include tags, so I'm afraid that won't work either. |
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Re: Eliminating HTML Spam
From: haversian-ga on 19 Jan 2004 09:00 PST |
*Only* in this plain-text mode? If you've got a situation where all HTML is spam, then do whatever you need to so OE will actually look at the body of the message, and strip out HTML using filters rather than OE's built-in nonsense. In theory that should work, right? Otherwise, you can't ID HTML (except by looking for a content-type, which may or may not be present, accurate, etc.) because OE's converted it into text just like all your other messages. |
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Re: Eliminating HTML Spam
From: ciaika-ga on 29 Jan 2004 07:17 PST |
If you use email client Outlook Express 6, then I can suggest you to use bayesian spam filter that are incorporate into Outlook Express. I use Spam Bully from http://ww.spambully.com . you can try it, it's very efficient, it kill more than 99% after I learned from my personal messages. Success. |
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Re: Eliminating HTML Spam
From: respree-ga on 31 Jan 2004 10:29 PST |
Thanks for all your suggestions. I tried the SpamBully and that seems to have solved my problems. Thanks again. |
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