On the advice of some people on IRC (sure, yeah, I do everything#
Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:28:44 +0000
On the advice of some people on IRC (sure, yeah, I do everything they tell me to. Except when it conflicts with the instructions of my toaster) I recently installed spamassassin (there's a Debian package in unstable). It has a point scoring system with a whole slew of "looks like spam" rules, then tags the spam with a special header so that I can filter it accordingly
SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results ---------------------- SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future, using SPAM: the built-in mail filtering support in your mail reader. SPAM: SPAM: Content analysis details: (31.2 hits, 5 required) SPAM: Hit! (0.1 points) Subject: contains a question mark SPAM: Hit! (2 points) From: does not include a real name SPAM: Hit! (3 points) Forged From: line claiming to be from hotmail.com SPAM: Hit! (2 points) Invalid Date: header (no timezone) SPAM: Hit! (1.6 points) From: ends in numbers SPAM: Hit! (2 points) BODY: /GUARANTEE/ SPAM: Hit! (1.9 points) BODY: /opt-in/i SPAM: Hit! (2 points) BODY: /(?:wish to|click to|To) remove yourself/ SPAM: Hit! (3.9 points) BODY: /subject.*remove/i SPAM: Hit! (2 points) BODY: /mailto:\S+\?subject=[3D=\s"']*remove/is SPAM: Hit! (2 points) BODY: /\n\n.*mailto:\S+\?subject=/is SPAM: Hit! (3 points) Listed in Razor, see http://razor.sourceforge.net/ SPAM: Hit! (2 points) Received via a relay in relays.ordb.org SPAM: [RBL check: found relay 48.19.93.203.relays.ordb.org.] SPAM: Hit! (3.7 points) Subject contains a unique ID number SPAM: SPAM: -------------------- End of SpamAssassin results ---------------------
Well, yes. There are very few reasons to pretend to be from Hotmail.