Heavy SPAM filter limitations

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Hi folks,

i get annoying spam mails as probably everyone. To filter them, there are preset options to move them forward to the junk folder and put it on domain or email backlist. Great.

But guess what? The spammers use for every single mail another email and/or domain, so the menu option is almost useless.

For this reason I thought, it’s a good idea to set an according rule. But, also here: the limitations in optionalisation of rule behaviour is dragging in its options so heavily behind even oldtime solutions, which we found even 10 years (!!) before.

For better understanding: you have spammers like [email protected], or [email protected] with always different content (body) there is no help at all in optionalize the rule like “send to my adress” or “processed with account” or “my name in to-field” or “words in the subject or body” or “words in the headline” and so on. It won’t filter this kind of spam out.
No chance. What I need in this case is to set even fragments of words, endings, domain aliases - besides complete words could be sort out by set them in the according dialogue. And moreover a command like “apply the rule XY” to whatever is selected in the mail box, at least to have the possibility to check imediately, if the rule settings are working as set.

But anyway: there are much more different needs to differentiate more and more spam. Compared with even microsoft entourage 2008 rule filters, which could be customize perfectly, ruling in emClient is a evidence of incapacity and very poor. Why comparison? Because the superficial look of emClient alone yet remembers Outlook.

So sorry for beeing bull-necked here, maybe there are some reasons to think over the concept of “rules” at emClient.

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eM Client’s spam handling is very simple.

The application does not have any spam detection, so it is better to see if your email provider can handle that. If they do, they either place the message in the spam folder, or mark it as spam and leave it in the Inbox. eM Client can move messages if they have been marked as spam, so in both instances, that takes care of the spam.

Blacklist Rules for senders or domains, or Rules in general, I don’t think are meant to be used on the scale that you are proposing, but can handle very basic spam that gets through the provider’s net.

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