Re: [cobalt-users] Banning Email

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<johnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The problem with this email is that the return address has been forged, it
> is not where the email really came from.  So far I've had 8 of these from
> as far afield as the UK, Argentina and Australia.  All have been from
> different email addresses.
>
> Putting hahaha@xxxxxxxxxx will not work since the server looks to see
> where the email is really from.
>
> Having said that, if anyone comes up with a solution I'd be interested to
> hear it.

See my post from about 7 hours ago about procmail.  You can use it to filter
out most anything.  For that particular email a filter that searches the
body for "snow white" might work for this email.  You could either have the
message sent to /dev/null (which will delete it) or have the messages stored
in a 'junk' folder that can be reviewed so you or the user can check for
false positives.  The set of extensive procmail recipes at
http://www.spambouncer.org/ are pretty popular for spam identifying rules.
You might want to install it or build your own rules.

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