Block Message's with Invalid Date

[Scott Silva]

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Chris Sweeney spake the following on 9/28/2005 4:08 PM:
> OK this might have been covered before but I don't see it, how can I
> reject or just mark as HIGH scoring SPAM messages that have an invalid
> date.  Allot of junk email is sent with way off dates and times, often
> the wrong year.  How can I reject messages with such bogus information? 
> Seems like I have been seeing 3 or 4 a day like that getting through
> MailScanner and into my email box so I'm sure there are many more.
> 
> Thanks
> Chris
You could change the scores for the spamassassin rules that check dates;
DATE_IN_PASTxxx and DATE_IN_FUTURExxx are several that stick out in my
mind.
Look at http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_0_x.html
or http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_2_6x.html if you haven't
upgraded yet.
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