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Lobster
I've set up email accounts for my kids (aged 8-13) on their computer,
on Outlook 2000, and I use Popfile to identify and weed out all the
spam which they seem to attract. It adds a line
"X-Text-Classification: Spam" to the message headers; all I have to do
is use a rule to process any such emails as they arrive from the ISP's
server.
Because of the particularly vile and graphical nature of some of the
spam, I'd really like to completely remove all trace of it from the
kids' machine on receipt; however, because there's a small risk of
"false positives" with Popfile, I prefer to have a rule which says
basically "on receipt of spam forward it to Dad then permanently
delete it" (then on my PC it goes straight into my own spam bin, which
I scan manually from time to time before deleting).
This process works fine except that it leaves a copy of the forwarded
spam in the kids' Sent box, which they can get at! Other than
disabling the saving of all their outgoing messages, is there a rule
or similar which I can use to remove all traces of the spam email from
their PC after it's forwarded to me?
An alternative might be to have their email coming in to my PC,
weeding out the crap there, then autoforwarding the OK emails to their
PC; however I can't figure out a way to do that which would retain the
original sender on such emails, so they can reply to them (and not
me!)
Any thoughts welcomed.
David
on Outlook 2000, and I use Popfile to identify and weed out all the
spam which they seem to attract. It adds a line
"X-Text-Classification: Spam" to the message headers; all I have to do
is use a rule to process any such emails as they arrive from the ISP's
server.
Because of the particularly vile and graphical nature of some of the
spam, I'd really like to completely remove all trace of it from the
kids' machine on receipt; however, because there's a small risk of
"false positives" with Popfile, I prefer to have a rule which says
basically "on receipt of spam forward it to Dad then permanently
delete it" (then on my PC it goes straight into my own spam bin, which
I scan manually from time to time before deleting).
This process works fine except that it leaves a copy of the forwarded
spam in the kids' Sent box, which they can get at! Other than
disabling the saving of all their outgoing messages, is there a rule
or similar which I can use to remove all traces of the spam email from
their PC after it's forwarded to me?
An alternative might be to have their email coming in to my PC,
weeding out the crap there, then autoforwarding the OK emails to their
PC; however I can't figure out a way to do that which would retain the
original sender on such emails, so they can reply to them (and not
me!)
Any thoughts welcomed.
David