Can I use a wildcard in mail filter?

Is it possible to use a wildcard in Rules to eliminate certain emails? I want to automatically delete emails that have a certain word in them -- and have set up a rule to do so -- but a few still sneak through by having that certain word as part of a longer word.

Further on this: I have avoided almost all spam up till now by telling friends not to send me emails unless directed solely to me -- i.e. that I'm not a part of a large "Cc" list that others forward on with my email address included. But recently I received an email with several names in the "Cc" list, mine included, and I suspect that is where the problem started -- when others on that list forwarded the email to others, and so on.

QUES: does using "Bcc" instead of "Cc" stop this problem -- the problem of my email address appearing when an email is forwarded?

G5 iSight, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jun 27, 2010 3:55 AM

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Jun 29, 2010 1:17 AM in response to Baby-Boomer-USofA

I tried the suggestion of Baby Boomer's, but could see no wildcard. Any suggestions how I can automatically delete emails with subjects such as: "WholesaleVi.agra Now"? A wildcard would work ( viag.ra) but it doesn't appear to be offered.

P.S. I used "vi.agra" because although Mail doesn't seem to be able to detect that "v" word when embedded in other words, this forum certainly does, and won't let me post.

Jun 29, 2010 12:55 PM in response to Guy Burns

Why rules are poor to use...

It takes surprisingly little information to make a word recognizable, especially if you include context. You could probably remove any two letters, duplicate any two, use any combination of spaces between one or more of the letters, substitute any one of thousands of different characters, include any character in any location as an extra, etc., etc...


http://x704.net/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4278&p=51022&hilit=spam#p51022

is there any other way?


http://c-command.com/spamsieve/

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