It's not about blocking spam, it's about forcing employees to be sensible
when it comes to electronic messages. I myself get between 20 - 30 emails a
day from 1 employee that carry blank subjects. Dare I say 700 a month from
one person? Memos, personal requests, outside of ramming their head into a
file cabinet, I have tried it all. Then you have remote users who I don't
have the pleasure of beating on daily. You want to talk about a very large
problem... I'd love to have 1% or 2% of my messages with no subject line.
As it stands right now, this very second, 20% of my corporate inbox is
filled with messages that have blank subject lines. That's a very large
problem. You want to come here a sift through 100 random e-mails trying to
find something?
I am fully aware of problem with bouncing mail and forged headers. But
using the test or filter intra-domain will have no adverse effects on yours,
or anyone's server... only mine.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:35 PM
To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Filter for blank subject lines
Since a sizeable amount of blank subjects are spam and come from forged
addresses, please don't bounce such messages. It's called backscatter,
and it is a very large problem, typically amounting to 1% to 2% of my
total mail volume. This is also common enough that you would also upset
many customers.
If you tweak your setup properly, you can tag blank subjects with a
little weight and still not have issues with blocking legitimate E-mail
while improving spam detection.
Matt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any previous talk on filtering for blank subject lines is 2 years old, so
I'd like to present the question again, and/or make a new feature request.
Within our corp, we have several employees who enjoy send their mails with
no subject what-so-ever. Wrist slaps have done nothing to correct this
problem. I'd like very much to bounce mails lacking subjects, informing
the
sender that to complete the delivery, they must resend with a completed
subject line.
I've tried using both SUBJECTCHARS and CONTSPACES, but they don't seem to
work as I'd like.
Is there a specific test or filter I can use to detect blank subject lines?
TIA
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