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Old 04-19-2004, 05:04 AM   #1
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blocking email


Need to filter email that arrives with blank subject, blank sender and a ? in the date field. This mail is very annoying.

I tried putting blanks in the filtering but with no luck.
 
Old 04-20-2004, 01:49 AM   #2
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//This isn't a security question.
More details please. Any correllation possible from looking at the full mailheaders? What you're filtering with?
 
Old 04-21-2004, 02:52 AM   #3
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If you're looking for a blank header, you would match it with this:
^Subject:$
or if \s is a metacharacter for "whitespace" (space, tab, etc), you could use something like
^Subject:\s*$

Note that some legitimate e-mails are sent with no subject (sender was in a hurry, or forgot). The same method applies to the 822 From: header as well (note that all of these assume RFC822 headers).

For the date, something like this should work:
^Date:\s*\?\s*$

Oh, I should point out that all of this assume that your e-mail filter can use REGEX.
 
  


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