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Spam, Spam

Submitted by sneakin on Sat, 2005/01/15 - 13:46.

Like most people I have more than one email address, but unlike most I have them all pour into a single email address. This gets interesting with spam. A couple of my email addresses have made it onto the bulk mailing list, thus causing me to occasionally receive duplicate spam.

I go through my mail by hand. Fortunately I don't get a God load of spam each day, so it's manageable. I could use a filter, but I have yet to and would be curious to see if I miss anything. However, I would feel safe running a filter to clean my inbox of these duplicate spams.

So does anyone out there know of a filter that has the option "Delete emails from the same sender that have the same subject and possibly content"? Thunderbird support would be nice.

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Why no filter?

Submitted by halr9000 on Thu, 2005/01/20 - 02:31.

So what I don't get is why no filter? Thunderbird has a built-in Bayesian spam filter that does a decent job.

-hal

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Coming from Pine

Submitted by sneakin on Thu, 2005/01/20 - 11:28.

I just started using Thunderbird. I had been using Pine, and will continue to when I'm not at home. I've started using TBird's filter, but it occasionally flags some email wrongly and doesn't get the duplicates.

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.procmailrc

Submitted by Forgotten soul on Mon, 2005/01/17 - 15:28.

## Delete duplicate messages (when someone CC's you on a list you are on)
CACHE_SIZE = 8192
CACHE_FILE = $HOME/.duplicate.cache
:0Whc: .duplicate.lock
| formail -D $CACHE_SIZE $CACHE_FILE
:0a
$the_path/.misc.duplicate/

...for Maildir, or:

$the_path/.misc.duplicate

...for mbox.

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And...

Submitted by sneakin on Thu, 2005/01/20 - 11:29.

How does that work btw? Looking at it, I can't see how it does what it's described to do.

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