[SC-Help] Re: How did this find my mailbox

[Mike Easter]

Bert Driehuis wrote:
> "Mike Easter"

>> Fred's likely mua is OE, not OL, and it has extremely weak message
>> rules, such as Subject, To, From, size, attachment, and a few other
>> simplistic ones.
>
> And there are no plugins to improve on the default?

There's a newsproxy Nfilter for filtering news, and there's a spamproxy
SpamPal for filtering spam.  There may be others, but those are the ones
I use.

> OE had the edge
> on OL when it came to Internet features like dealing with headers.

OE's edge over OL re mailheaders is that it stores the mail intact.  OL
separates the headers and saves them OK, and/but then mapi-izes the body
for the store, then has to de-mapi it into an html 'creation' and stick
that concoction back together with the original header if called upon
for source.  Not a pretty picture.  OE can access the original mail
nicely, but it doesn't have much 'power' in terms of such as filters to
work on headers.

> FWIW, I think SpamAssassin would be powerful enough to express the
> condition that the OP wanted to check for. I think that's available
> as a plugin for OE, no?

There're ways to install SA on Win, even without cygwin, but it isn't a
popular trick.  I wouldn't call it an OE plugin.
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/InstallingOnWindows

SA will also install on some Macs.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin