Rules Don't Work

  • Thread starter Thread starter JCO
  • Start date Start date
J

JCO

None of my rules work. I keep creating them and them keep getting longer
and more complicated. I get mail that is spam, I add some text from the
body as part of a rule to search Subject and Body (for the text), but it
never works. I set the message to "Unread" status and try running the rules
against unread messages...nothing. This has been going on for a few months
now, therefore, I've thoroughly tested these options.

Why is this the case?
 
None of my rules work. I keep creating them and them keep getting longer
and more complicated. I get mail that is spam, I add some text from the
body as part of a rule to search Subject and Body (for the text), but it
never works. I set the message to "Unread" status and try running the rules
against unread messages...nothing. This has been going on for a few months
now, therefore, I've thoroughly tested these options.

Why is this the case?
Click to expand...

if the incoming mail is in html format you're out of luck. i've had
the same problem. the rules in OL2000 don't see HTML coding. i
finally added a 3rd party spam filter and have been able to reduce
spam in the inbox by about 99%.

rich
 
Thanks for your input. Let me know what 3rd party you used so I can do my
research.
However, here is what I have done and it seems to have helped.

I had a SPAM Rule set that had multiple items such as checking subject and
body for certain text (rule one (a)). This was "and" with other rules. I
had a total of 4-different parts that were "and" together to make the one
SPAM Rule
Example:
Rule one (a)
cond1 or cond2 or cond 3
and
Rule one (b)
cond1 or cond2 or cond 3
and
Rule one (c)
cond1 or cond2 or cond 3
and
Rule one (d)
cond1 or cond2 or cond 3

Every item listed within a single category has the word "or" in between them
but each category that I would add to the same rule was "and" together.

What I did was split these up into complete separate Rules named SPAM-1,
SPAM-2... SPAM-4. When put into separate rules, they seem to be working
now.

Seems to be a play on words. Separating each category into separate rules
seems to have "or" everything which seems to be working.

Sorry for the confusion, hope this makes sense.
 
Thanks for your input. Let me know what 3rd party you used so I can do my
research.
However, here is what I have done and it seems to have helped.

I had a SPAM Rule set that had multiple items such as checking subject and
body for certain text (rule one (a)). This was "and" with other rules. I
had a total of 4-different parts that were "and" together to make the one
SPAM Rule
Example:
Rule one (a)
cond1 or cond2 or cond 3
and
Rule one (b)
cond1 or cond2 or cond 3
and
Rule one (c)
cond1 or cond2 or cond 3
and
Rule one (d)
cond1 or cond2 or cond 3

Every item listed within a single category has the word "or" in between them
but each category that I would add to the same rule was "and" together.

What I did was split these up into complete separate Rules named SPAM-1,
SPAM-2... SPAM-4. When put into separate rules, they seem to be working
now.

Seems to be a play on words. Separating each category into separate rules
seems to have "or" everything which seems to be working.

Sorry for the confusion, hope this makes sense.
Click to expand...
i use spam inspector for anti-spam but there are a lot of them out
there. how successful are your rules?

rich
 
Will know if a few weeks incase some tweaking is required.
I prefer stopping the spam at the server level instead of catching at the
inbox but ... this is our world.
 
Will know if a few weeks incase some tweaking is required.
I prefer stopping the spam at the server level instead of catching at the
inbox but ... this is our world.
Click to expand...

i became weary of entering new key words and all of the spelling mods
to each word. yahoo and earthlink now do a pretty good job of
stopping e-mail at their servers. that wasn't the case a year or so
ago. in fact, my earthlink account is set to maximum which means that
only those on my white list get through. yahoo stops about 95% of
anything come thru that server. i've stopped reading my work e-mail
at home whoich took care of a ton of spam. what little gets thru is
almost always caught by my anti-spam software.

rich
 
Back
Top