block spam based on subject?

[Michael Masse]

Thanks for the spamassassin rule tip.    I created a rule and it seems
to be working.   I was just wondering if it's necessary to restart
MailScanner every time you create or modify a rule?

Mike


>>> On 10/25/2006 at 2:52 PM, in message
<223f97700610251252q4bcb6ec9g82877f11963d2b28 at mail.gmail.com>, "Glenn
Steen"
<glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:-).