Ticket #118 (closed enhancement: wontfix)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 3 months ago

POPFile needs a "Not To:" magnet type

Reported by: Jonathan Assigned to: admin
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: User Interface Version: 1.1.0
Severity: normal Keywords: magnets, filter, headers
Cc:

Description

About half the spam I get is to various email address other than my email address - i.e. Spammers have used some trickery in the email header to deliver those emails to my inbox - I've been getting round this by creating magnets to sort the most common variants into spam, but the magnet list is getting really long now, and this probably isnt the most efficient way to sort spam.

Therefore, since the To: header does not contain my email address, POPFile could save an awful lot of time and resources by simply letting me create a filter that labels any email not specifically addressed to my email address as something for the spam folder.

Change History

10/10/09 01:45:17 changed by amatubu

Hi,

Sorry for late reply.

I don't think the feature is useful for me. Also, I think it is too dangerous. I'm receiving many e-mails which my e-mail address is included in Cc or Bcc.

And we recommend you to use magnets carefully. If magnets are used, POPFile cannot not learn enough from your e-mail messages. For more information, please see:

http://getpopfile.org/docs/glossary:amagnet

http://getpopfile.org/docs/faq:whitelists

POPFile needs some time to learn your messages and achieve good accuracy. Please give it enough time and enough information. For more information about the learning, please see:

http://getpopfile.org/docs/faq:whengood

If you really assume that the emails which does not contain your e-mail address in its To: header is spam, you can filter them using rules on your client.

Naoki

09/09/10 19:51:45 changed by amatubu

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to wontfix.

I close this ticket while the original reporter does not respond over a year. Please reopen the ticket if you really think POPFile should have this feature. I think this is a work for the mail clients.

Naoki