Hello Jeff,

Tuesday, December 14, 2004, 10:09:29 AM, you wrote:

JK> We're getting hit with a lot of emails with blank subject lines and blank
JK> contents. Could be some kind of address verification robot. Is SA supposed
JK> to filter these? If not, does anyone have some custom rules that would do 
it?

I finally got around to testing these rules:

header    SARE_SUBJ             exists:Subject
meta      SARE_NO_SUBJ          !SARE_SUBJ

header    SARE_SUBJ             Subject =~ m'\S'
meta      SARE_BLANK_SUBJ       !SARE_SUBJ

body      SARE_BODY             m'\S'
meta      SARE_BODY_BLANK       !SARE_BODY 

meta      SARE_EMPTY_SUBJ_BODY  ( SARE_NO_SUBJ || SARE_BLANK_SUBJ ) && 
SARE_BODY_BLANK

OVERALL%   SPAM%     HAM%     S/O    RANK   SCORE  NAME
  95115    59678    35437    0.627   0.00    0.00  (all messages)
100.000  62.7430  37.2570    0.627   0.00    0.00  (all messages as %)
  2.295   3.3094   0.5870    0.849   0.00    1.00  SARE_BLANK_SUBJ
  0.139   0.1843   0.0621    0.748   0.00    1.00  SARE_BODY_BLANK
  2.295   3.3094   0.5870    0.849   0.00    1.00  SARE_NO_SUBJ
  0.130   0.1826   0.0423    0.812   0.00    1.00  SARE_EMPTY_SUBJ_BODY
 99.861  99.8157  99.9379    0.500   0.00    1.00  SARE_BODY
 97.705  96.6906  99.4130    0.493   0.00    1.00  SARE_SUBJ

An S/O of 0.812 for SARE_EMPTY_SUBJ_BODY is maybe worth a point or so,
but it's not a strong enough indicator of spam to be worth much.

Bob Menschel



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