bm said:
I have looked at the website for tips as suggested by PA Bear
You started a NEW thread. You don't give a link or details so anyone
can find your old thread. So the "website" is unknown in your new
discussion.
but nothing
seems to stop a Viagra site from sending messages with different titles
every time and the titles appear to be legitimate subjects.
So the spam itself is only in the body of the e-mail? Or is it an
attachment?
Strangely they all appear in my deleted file which is a start.
What anti-spam product(s) are you using now?
Did you enable the server-side anti-spam filter in your e-mail account?
Trying to test on words within the body of an e-mail to detect spam is
nearly worthless. A word could be split by interjecting HTML tags
within the word (which are valid but ineffective tags, like
"Via<b></b>gra", or which are invalid so they are ignored, like
"Via<viagra>gra"). A word could be split across cells in a table. Just
because you see a word doesn't mean it is that word in the actual
message. You'll have to look at the raw source of the e-mail to see how
the word is actually presented. Most e-mail clients ignored any HTML
formatting so they cannot see when a word has interjecting valid/invalid
HTML tags or are split across cells in a table or other means of
obfuscating the word's presence in HTML-formatted e-mails.
Since this is obviously a question regarding whatever unidentified
e-mail client that you use, ask in a newsgroup that discusses that
unidentified e-mail client on how to make it work. Or ask here or in
the alt.spam newsgroup for suggestions on anti-spam software if too much
to your liking is leaking past your e-mail provider's anti-spam filter
assuming it is enabled.
If the spam e-mails are getting moved to your Deleted Items or Trash
folder (which I had to assume is what you meant by "deleted file"
although you never did identify your e-mail client) then what's the
problem? It appears they are getting deleted. That's not what you
want?
