Thanks for your help. I will try this out, and see how it goes. Presumably it could be amended to check for Mike, Michael or blank to avoid the problem you mentioned. I will look up the regular expression syntax and see if I can suss it out.
> From: Mike Spamassassin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> I have seen a rule to identify that the "From" address does not have a "real name", which I presume is the description (i.e. in my case "Mike Spamassassin"). I would like to have a rule which identifies emails where the "To" address does not contain either "Mike" or "Michael". Has anyone created a similar rule, or can anyone point me in the right direction. > > As has been pointed out before, this is generally a bad idea. There are lots of newsletters and mailing lists (including this one) that do not put your name in the "To" field. > > If you want to try it, you can use a rule such as this: > > header NOT_MY_NAME To:name !~ /\b(?:Mike|Michael)\b/i > score NOT_MY_NAME 0.5 > describe NOT_MY_NAME To does not contain Mike or Michael > > Adjust the score to your liking. Don't put it too high until you are sure it's not going to produce too may false positives. > > If you do this, you may need to whitelist some of your mailing lists and newsletters. > > Bowie > >
