Additional filtering suggestion.

Don't you just hate those SPAM/UCE messages which have your actual email address buried amongst a bunch of similar addresses, in the 'To' or 'Cc'? Normally, you'd keep any message which contains your address in the 'To' or 'Cc'.

I made a filter by collecting some of these other addresses. I don't know any of these people, so there is no chance I'll ever want any email that is 'Cc'-ed to them. This has proven to be highly effective against such SPAM/UCE. It also demonstrates the kind of flexibility this 'rifle' program gives you in specifiying your filters.

    { hdr   => [ 'To', 'Cc' ],
      regex => 'gerard\@('.join('|', map(quotemeta, qw(
memes.com
midusa.net
mis.net
misterat.com
mkb.hobby.nl
mlecmn.net
mninter.net
mobilnet.net
monad.net
moncourrier.com
mood.freeserve.co.uk
moransopticians.healthnet.co.uk
mozcom.com
mrnet.com
msi.campus-ventures.co.uk
msn.com
))).
')', 
      op    => 'toss',
      desc  => 'SPAM/UCE with many gerards in To/Cc list' },
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Re: Additional filtering suggestion.
by perldoc (Scribe) on Jan 26, 2002 at 01:30 UTC

Actually, there is a much simpler way to do this, and it does not require maintaining a list of other people's email addresses.

Match on the domains you do want, then negate the result. Like so:

{ hdr   => [ 'To', 'Cc' ],
  regex => 'gerard\@(?!('.
               join('|', 
                   map(
                       quotemeta, 
                       qw(mycompany.com oldname.com homedomain.com))).
+'))', 
  op    => 'toss' },
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This will throw out mails addressed to 'gerard' which are not from the specified domains.

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