--On Friday, January 02, 2004 11:50 AM -0500 Theo Van Dinter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's the only version that didn't cause a ton of false positives.
For instance, assume someone uses their first name as their username:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] They'll get legitimate mails like "please update this
I think that it should be configurable to enable what Mark and others have
mentioned on this thread. While some sites may use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as you
use in your example, it is much more common to use, for example,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] No legit person is going to say "ahoying, please do
this" in
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:54:34AM -0500, Mark London wrote:
> Actually, no. The rule is matching the username to the To: address, not
> From:. The purpose of spammers doing this is to think it's a personal
> message, so it has to be the username of the person receiving the spam.
Doh! You're
Theo Van Dinter wrote:
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:33:23PM -0500, Mark London wrote:
>Hi - I see the rule USERNAME_IN_SUBJECT, but I've never seen that
triggered at my site, and a test message sent to myself did not trigger
it. We are using spamassassin with sendmail, mimedefang, cyrus, and
redh
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:33:23PM -0500, Mark London wrote:
> Hi - I see the rule USERNAME_IN_SUBJECT, but I've never seen that
> triggered at my site, and a test message sent to myself did not trigger
> it. We are using spamassassin with sendmail, mimedefang, cyrus, and
> redhat linux. Any i
Hi - I see the rule USERNAME_IN_SUBJECT, but I've never seen that
triggered at my site, and a test message sent to myself did not trigger
it. We are using spamassassin with sendmail, mimedefang, cyrus, and
redhat linux. Any idea why it's not working? Thanks. - Mark
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