[antispam-f] Re: What have they got against Deborah anyway?

  • From: Martin <freelists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: antispam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:08:27 +0000 (GMT)

In article <4e8a7bb63bJeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Jeremy C B Nicoll <Jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <ec0f468a4e.Dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    Dave Barnett <as10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > You can delete the spam addressed to an old Message-ID with a rule:
> > Delete Envelope-To: = *.<your address>*  (note the dot, it is vital).

> Surely that only works if the message-ids contain dots before the <your
> address> part?

> I get spams addressed to values like:

>       4bbbda501bjeremy@myisp

> and classify these based on the first 10 characters being a valid
> hexadecimal number.

With v1.59.1 I now use ...

 Delete To:  RegEx \a+martin@avisoft\.

which traps anything that adds any stuff on to the start of one of my
user names, which seems to work a treat for me.

Martin

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