Re: [vps-mail] Feedback requested - filter on [hormel luncheon meat] in subject?

["Andy McKell, FOCUS Internet" <mac@xxxxxxxx>]

When I reached 300 spams a day, I introduced a spam/virus filtering which 
labels everything suspect as {spam} in my subject line before delivery to 
my own server. Anything with spam in the subject line (not on my client 
whitelist) gets trashed by procmailrc. Last count this was 800 a day.

Anyone not on my whitelist sending me a business email which seriously 
looks like spam gets lost - but do I need such a customer?

Andy



At 09:04 PM 12/6/2005 -0800, you wrote:

> I'm getting spam that is sent out and has [spam] in the subject line. I 
> know that there were some state laws that specified spam had to be labeled 
> as such, but since those were all stricken when (now you) CAN-SPAM was 
> enacted, I'm not sure what the deal with these are.
>
> Normally I'd add a rule to SA to add 50 points to a [spam] labeled email, 
> but i've seen it happen where my email was labeled as spam by a 
> recipient's server, and that put a [spam] in the subject line, and then 
> they responded to my (tagged) email.  Had I enacted that +50 point rule, 
> I'd never have gotten that email.
>
> So my question: Do any of you have filters that filter out [spam] in the 
> subject line (i've not used it here just incase someone does)?  I don't 
> get too much spam that way - maybe 4-8 a day, but if it starts getting 
> bad, this could be a problem...
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
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