Interesting. you're right, email with mclark in the subject get caught. But it does not seem to be catching virtual names as the alternate To:. for example, webmaster@ comes into my regular username, but that rule does not seem to match because the username is mclark. Mike


At 11:00 PM -0400 6/5/03, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:49:48PM -0400, Michael Clark wrote:
 Is there a rule for matching the username in the subject line? I've
 been getting lots of spam with a  subject line of "mclark,
 information for you" or "webmaster turn back time." People that send

You mean like USERNAME_IN_SUBJECT? ;) It looks for 'username,' followed by a non-whitespace character. It's the only one that fared well in testing.

 real mail rarely (if ever) send a message with the username as part
 of the subject. Thanks, Mike

actually, they do if the username is their first/last name. lots of FPs on that.

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