block spam based on subject?

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Wed Oct 25 20:52:03 IST 2006


On 25/10/06, Michael Masse <mrm at medicine.wisc.edu> wrote:
> Looking through the examples for the whitelist and blacklist settings in
> MailScanner I see that you can pretty much do just about anything with
> from and to addresses.    Is it possible to create rules based on the
> subject?   We've been getting bombarded with spam that has "re: v??agra"
> in the subject for the last month.    It's always changing ever so
> slightly so that heuristics doesn't work so good with them, and I didn't
> think they would be at it for this long to bother with making a special
> rule for them, but they just keep coming and coming and if I could
> simply reject any email that has the previous phrase in the subject,
> life would be much happier.   I realize that making special case rules
> like this isn't the best way to go, because they could simply change
> something else about it tomorrow, but it would make me feel better right
> now if nothing else.
>
> Mike

If you use Postfix you can do this with a header check. Other than
that, this is generally more the domain of SpamAssassin (how to make a
rule is well documented in their Wiki, docs etc... Or search this
list:-).

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-- Glenn
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