Re: [vps-mail] procmail to score an ISO-8859 subject

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Godwin Stewart wrote:

> Plus, you often correspond with people in a locale where encoding the
> subject is frequent (and MUA's tend to QP-encode).
How in the world did you know that, Godwin :)

> So, if you were to scan for "=?charset?B?stuff?=", you'd probably
> have a much lower false positive rate.
>
> :0 * ^Subject:.*=?[^?]+?B?.*?=

You totally lost me there... what's the charset?B ?

In fact, the specific spam that a user complained about today was in
English with the subject in ISO-8859 and with no accented characters.
Perhaps the best approach is to look for the IS with no accents and then
body scan for the usual suspects.

The real story is that if poeple didn't use their professional (and hard
to change) addresses for ebay and the the likes, this mostly would not
be a problem. One of the first things one woman did when hired was to
join a bunch of mailing lists having absolutely nothing to do with work.
In fact, on the contrary this was for notification of anti-work stuff
like new RealAudio radio stations newsletter.

Oh well, I guess we're paid to deal with this.



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