expire unused filters
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Author: robh,
Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:26 am Post subject: expire unused filters
The spammers are changing their approaches so fast these days that I often find my inbox full of messages using a "new" approach - so I set up a filter. The spammers move on but the filter stays 'cos I don't know it's outlived its usefulness.
In some respect it doesn't matter, maybe slows down MW checking process a little but so what? Well it's a matter of filter management, I've got a very long list of them operating and, for example, maybe the best thing to do is to make an existing filter "automatic without notification delete" rather than set up a new one or perhaps just add a rule to an existing filter.
A practical example: a couple of months ago I was getting hundreds of spams a day from senders called Nannie, Gerhard or Reyna (at lots of different domains). Since those are unusual names and I don't know anyone with those names I set up a filter for any of them in the "from" field. Spam using those names has stopped now and I just MIGHT get a genuine new correspondent called Gerhard so it would be nice if the filter had automatically expired after 30 days of no activity. Its a nuisance having to remember to do it myself and search through the filters to delete the right one.
Author: Jarron,
Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:51 am Post subject:
Perhaps make it optional, maybe with an adjustable time limit as with the blacklist.
There are some filters I have had disabled for some time now that I may wish to use again. For instance I have some that work in conjuction with my ISP's spam filter that I'm not using at the present time because I've turned off the ISP filter. Every once in awhile I just like to use them for testing to see at what level I could set the ISP filter if I decide to use it again. I also have other filters that I would turn back on if I got overwhelmed with spam, sort of "emergency use only" filters I guess you might call them.
Author: Takfuji, Location: Japan
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:57 am Post subject:
I second.
Have suggested the same function, (waiting for responce from Firetrust).
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