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Feature request for spam filters

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Ian Webling
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Currently, when setting up spam filters, Thunderbird allows one to to set a condition. Would it not be possible to add an AND field to that. For example, I often get spam emails of the form "BankName interest rate changes". While I can set a filter to ignore any Subject that contains the work BankName it does not help if BankName is my actual bank. It would be useful to be able to create a filter such as: Send to junk if subject contains BankName AND email does not contain BankName.com.

Just a suggestion.

Many thanks -Ian

Currently, when setting up spam filters, Thunderbird allows one to to set a condition. Would it not be possible to add an AND field to that. For example, I often get spam emails of the form "BankName interest rate changes". While I can set a filter to ignore any Subject that contains the work BankName it does not help if BankName is my actual bank. It would be useful to be able to create a filter such as: Send to junk if subject contains BankName AND email does not contain BankName.com. Just a suggestion. Many thanks -Ian

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There's the "Match all of the following" criteria option. That is effectively an AND condition. So, you'd have:

Match all of the following: SUBJECT contains BankName FROM doesn't contain BankName.com

If you examine the headers of a legit bank email, you might find some other criteria that would definitively distinguish their messages from imposters.

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david
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Just create two rules, one for bank name and for not bankname.com

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Lin
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There's the "Match all of the following" criteria option. That is effectively an AND condition. So, you'd have:

Match all of the following: SUBJECT contains BankName FROM doesn't contain BankName.com

If you examine the headers of a legit bank email, you might find some other criteria that would definitively distinguish their messages from imposters.

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Ian Webling
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But surely this would flag any not bankname.com as spam? Thus the need for AND.

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david
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It is an AND statement, If the sender is bankname and sender is not bankname.com. tick the box to match all conditions

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Lin
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I posted this earlier, but apparently it's waiting for "moderator's approval"! I'll try again...

Choose the "Match all of the following" option. Criteria are:

Subject CONTAINS BankName From DOESN'T CONTAIN BankName.com

Perform these actions:

Set Junk Status to Junk


If you examine a legit bank message header, you might find some other criteria that definitively identifies your banks mails.

If you know about regular expressions, there's an add-on called "FiltaQuilla" that allows you to use them to make more complex filter rules.

Modified by Lin

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sfhowes
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Add extra conditions to the same filter as in the attached picture. 'Match all...' means AND, 'Match any...' means OR.

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Ian Webling
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Thanks to all those who responded. I'm sorted now.

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