block spam based on subject?
James Fagan
jfagan at firstlightnetworks.com
Wed Oct 25 21:05:46 IST 2006
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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> Of Michael Masse
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:24 PM
> To: <MailScanner discussion
> Subject: block spam based on subject?
>
> 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
There is a milter-regex out there somewhere wich will do what you like
http://www.benzedrine.cx/index.html
I have some notes on the install for a CentOS 4.3 box at
http://jfworks.net/linux/milter-regex.html
I used this for a while, but then I was getting FP's. So I gave up.
James
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