How Do I Filter Incoming Mail to a Given Address Against the Address Book? - Eudora

On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:54:54 -0500, jim evans wrote:

> I want to create a filter that does this:
>
> Header To:
> Contains myaddress@mydomain.com
>
> and
>
> intersects: any address in my address book
>
> transferred to: My personal mailbox
> skip rest
>
> When I select the filter To: and 'Intersects Address Book' it will not
> let me enter the address I want tested. It forces me to test all To
> headers against some particular address book.

Are there two separate conditions specifiable
in the "Match" box for a filter,
and is there a drop-down box
between the upper condition and the lower condition
which defaults to "ignore"
(ignore the second condition) but can be set to "and"?

Then use each condition, just as you specify above,
with "and" in-between.

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Addendum:

On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:54:54 -0500, jim evans wrote:

> I want to create a filter that does this:
>
> Header To:
> Contains myaddress@mydomain.com
>
> and
>
> [missing something here]
> intersects: any address in my address book

"missing something here" needs to be "From," I would presume
(you would not test whether your own fixed address
is in your address book

So those are the two separate *conditions* for your filter
(separated by "and," selected in the middle)

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On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:54:54 -0500, jim evans
<jimsTAKEOUTnews2@houston.rr.com> declaimed the following in
comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows:

> How Do I Filter Incoming Mail to a Given Address Against the Address
> Book?
>
> I receive mail from many people I don't know, so I cannot filter all
> incoming mail against addresses in the Address Book (filter condition:
> Intersects Address Book), but my personal email address can and should
> be tested against the addresses in the Address Book. But, I can't
> figure out how to do that.
>
> I want to create a filter that does this:
>
> Header To:
> Contains myaddress@mydomain.com
> and intersects: any address in my address book
> transferred to: My personal mailbox
> skip rest
>
I'm confused... If the message "to" field already has your address,
why would you then be testing that field against what are presumably
addresses of people you send mail to? Did you create address book
entries for your own address(es)?

Are you sure you don't mean to test the "from" field against the
address book?

TO:
contains your address
AND
FROM
intersects addressbook

This should activate on any message that is both directly addressed
to "your address" (as opposed to common spam with junk To: addresses)
AND was sent by someone you know (or, at least, created an address book
entry for)
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On Fri, 11 May 2007 02:25:03 -0500:

> This should activate on any message that is both directly addressed
> to "your address" (as opposed to common spam with junk To: addresses)

It nowadays seems to be very popular for lots of spam to arrive
addressed "To: Nobody I Know <me@mydomain>" (with my own
actual email address, but they didn't know my real name),
basically because so many people "whitelist" their own
email address or domain in spam filters (so don't!)

This makes filtering slightly more challenging,
but it is possible to look for your own name
in the "To:" line, if it can be distinguished
from your email address, and to "score" mail
more positively if that matches.

> AND was sent by someone you know
> (or, at least, created an address book entry for)

Unfortunately, there are so many more possibilities
to account for -- what if a sender whom you know
put your address in "Cc:" (or even "Bcc:") -- that situation
would *not* match the "To: me AND intersects address book"
criteria, so perhaps the first conditional test
might better be against "Any Recipient" rather than "To"
(yet it still won't screen out the kind of spam mentioned above).

In the final ****ysis, the only truly reliable
filter seems to remain the human reader.

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On Fri, 11 May 2007 07:25:03 GMT, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:54:54 -0500, jim evans
><jimsTAKEOUTnews2@houston.rr.com> declaimed the following in
>comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows:
>
>> How Do I Filter Incoming Mail to a Given Address Against the Address
>> Book?
>>
>> I receive mail from many people I don't know, so I cannot filter all
>> incoming mail against addresses in the Address Book (filter condition:
>> Intersects Address Book), but my personal email address can and should
>> be tested against the addresses in the Address Book. But, I can't
>> figure out how to do that.
>>
>> I want to create a filter that does this:
>>
>> Header To:
>> Contains myaddress@mydomain.com
>> and intersects: any address in my address book
>> transferred to: My personal mailbox
>> skip rest
>>
> I'm confused... If the message "to" field already has your address,
>why would you then be testing that field against what are presumably
>addresses of people you send mail to? Did you create address book
>entries for your own address(es)?
>
> Are you sure you don't mean to test the "from" field against the
>address book?
>
>TO:
>contains your address
>AND
>FROM
>intersects addressbook
>
> This should activate on any message that is both directly addressed
>to "your address" (as opposed to common spam with junk To: addresses)
>AND was sent by someone you know (or, at least, created an address book
>entry for)

That is exactly it. That works. Thanks

-- jim