Spam filter - body text

[davebesag]

Hi,

I'm wondering whether you can use the spam filter to delete messages with a specific string of text. I'm receiving messages from a spammer who is using different subject names and domain names when they spam me. However, they use two basic (but slightly altered) message texts. If I could filter out a body of text I could block all their messages. I've looked at the custom filter rules and have no idea what you would select.

Thanks.

[Simon]

I could be very wrong, but I'm not sure that you can, as that would involve your emails contents being scanned, and there would probably be privacy issues regarding that. 

Cue can of worms being opened... 

[Gary]

That could be a bad move as it may catch emails using part of those phrases. You could adjust the X-Spam-Level. Mine used to be X-Spam-Level xxxxx but setting it to xxxx has caught more spam but its not stopping legit mail. You could block the countries domain he is sending from possibly like blocking .ru if its Russian for instance

[pctech]

As Gary says to do what you would like to do the spam filter software needs to be able to interpret context and no commercially available anti spam can yet do that.

[nowster]

What about the Bayesian filters built into Thunderbird?

[peterbeaumont]

I've been a long-time user of Firetrust's MailWasherPro and find it extremely useful.

http://www.firetrust.com/en/products/mailwasher-pro

[Bill]

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What about the Bayesian filters built into Thunderbird?

Others are referring to the filters on the server, there are limits (legal and otherwise) as to what they can do with the content of an email.

Once your client (Thunderbird or anything else) has downloaded it, you can do what you like with it.