E-Mail client software and spam

**Aaron** · 19-11-2003, 02:02 PM

Like most people, I get a hell of a lot of spam in my inbox and it's driving me nuts. Now, all of the spam I get is formatted in html and all of the e-mail I actually want to read isn't.

So, at first, I thought that if I created a rule in Outlook Express saying if body contains the word "<html>" then delete e-mail I would be fine but it appears that Outlook Express ignores HTML tags when applying rules.

Does anyone know of an e-mail client that will automatically delete all html-based e-mails?

Thanks.

**Moby-Dick** · 19-11-2003, 02:11 PM

yes but only at server level.

its called gfi mail essentials from www.gfi.com

try some of the other client side antispam software such as k9 ( see sticky )

**Raz316** · 19-11-2003, 02:18 PM

I am not sure how well this will work, but I think you want to look for specific text in the message header.

E.G. a HTML spam message I got had...
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

A legit plain text message had...
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed

I dunno if this will knock out plain text mails with attachments but try the rule..

On recieving an email, check for the text "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;" in the message header, and delete the message if found.

Again, I dunno how well it will work (with some HTML messages having attatchments) but you could add an exception rule to it.

On recieving an email, check for the text "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;" in the message header, and delete the message if found, except if the message has an attachment.

Tis all off the top of my head, so I cannot verify

**Aaron** · 19-11-2003, 10:14 PM

Sadly, Outlook Express doesn't give the option to check the header as a rule type.

**Zathras** · 19-11-2003, 11:34 PM

Get a decent mailreader then!

Seriously, Thunderbird is coming along nicely. I use Gemini but it costs.

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