Thanks Bill for the very helpful information. Harvey (Portland, Oregon, USA) ~ ~ ~ On 10 Sep 2019, at 9:00, mailmate-requ...@lists.freron.com wrote:
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:38:26 -0400 From: "Bill Cole" <mmlist-20120...@billmail.scconsult.com> To: "MailMate Users" <mailmate@lists.freron.com> Subject: Re: [MlMt] Filtering junk mail Message-ID: <ee9b4bfe-6e2c-4d92-a542-c692729bc...@billmail.scconsult.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed On 10 Sep 2019, at 0:02, Harvey S. Leff wrote: I've been receiving multiple messages daily from China. Their text is in Chinese and there are no images. I don't even know what they are selling. The return addresses follow a pattern. Two recent messages are from jdeefs1...@126.com and vsuayyn221...@163.com. For what it's worth: 126.com and 163.com are 2 of the freemail domains run by NetEase, a major Chinese tech company. Unless you have personal acquaintances in China, you are unlikely to ever receive legitimate mail from users in either domain. Those domains are bit like China's analogs to hotmail.com and live.com. They do go into my Junk mailbox, but I don't know a way to filter these messages further. Examination of their raw messages show they were both received by a server, ajax-webmail-wmsvr124 (Coremail). That hostname pattern in the oldest Received header of messages is typical of NetEase webmail, which uses the Chinese webmail server software Coremail. However, if I search my mailboxes for this name, nothing is found, so it appears that I cannot create a smart mailbox to snag these messages. Any ideas? 1. Filtering on the freemail domains (126.com and 163.com) is likely to be more generally useful. 2. That specific name is one of hundreds (maybe thousands) of similarly-named webmail servers that handle all of the NetEase freemail domains, their business customers, and their own corporate email. It's mildly interesting that your junk all hits that one server but possibly just a coincidence. 3. MM by default just searches "Common Headers and Unquoted Text" which does not include Received headers. You can change that to search any specific header in the Conditions section of the Smart Mailbox editing window, wbhere each condition has a drop-down menu listing the Most common headers to seearch and "Other..." which opens a selection window allowing you to choose literally any header MM has ever seen. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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