keyword catch

[Julian Field]

This is exactly what SpamAssassin are trying to do (among other things). I
would much rather leave the job to them, they are a whole lot better at it
than any other attempt I've seen.
Looking for particular strings is where the folks at SpamAssassin started
too...

At 14:07 07/10/2002, you wrote:
>      Hey, I know that mailscanner is mainly a "virus scanner", but with
>your leaps and
>bounds in the security department (outlook, Eudora fixes, GIF email tests,
>and now HTML ->
>plain text), I was wondering if it would be possible to have a config file
>that listed line by
>line string searches.  For example, we get hundreds of porn spams a day
>that are *very*
>similar, and blacklisting the sender does not help, as they spam from
>1232rwdae3ea at domain.com.
>They just change a couple letters in their email address and send the next
>day fine.  Blocking
>the entire domain is not an option.
>
>I am basically wondering how hard it would be to allow for certain string
>matches.  By matching
>any email that has "Free Porn" in it and tagging that message as *Spam* , I
>could block hundreds of
>offensive emails in a day.
>.....................................
>Christopher S. Campbell
>UNIX Admin
>First Albany Corp
>518.447.8544
>chris.campbell at fac.com

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