> On 3/22/2011 1:16 PM, Mark Chaney wrote: >> Ever notice that a lot of spam seems to have your username in their >> from address? Such as an email sent TO b...@domain.com is FROM >> blah...@anotherdomain.com (notice 'blah' included in the from >> address). This appears to be the case with a large a majority of >> the spam that gets through my filters. Any ideas how to handle >> this? Would be nice to be able to add a score for matches like >> that.
This hasn't been common enough (in my experience) to justify either of the two ways to match it (a plugin or else an ugly pair of multi-line ALL header rules). I suppose somebody could throw something up in their sandbox, but we'd need the result from timing.log (not published) to properly gauge the results (assuming it even has a favorable hit rate and S/O). On 03/22/2011 01:59 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > If this sort of thing bothers you then simply use a unique or close > to unique username and then put a filter in your e-mail client. > > send mail from: > > markymarkythefunkyd...@northpole.com > > and your guaranteed that anyone mailing you with > "markymarkthefunkydude" in any part of their sending e-mail address > is a spammer, and it should be child's play to create a filter in > even Outlook that will delete those messages. That's an ugly workaround that will serve to annoy anybody he corresponds with (especially if he's dictating his address at a party; that doesn't fit on a napkin). It also requires trashing an old email address, which means alienating/losing old contacts. It also doesn't address the abstraction that Mark was trying to share with us. The real question is: is this common in uncaught spam?
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