You're right that you can't filter the lefthand side of the envelope sender 
with a wildcard, but if they're all using the same "From:" name you could use a 
header blacklist (with a wildcard).

-- Sam Clippinger




On Sep 6, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Lutz Petersen wrote:

> 
> I didn't wished to make a philosophical discussion, just my 4 cents ;-)
> 
> Over all I believe that same sender<>recipient always isn't such a
> great problem. Most of those mails will be catched before by other
> filter mechanisms. Those which left are not really much.
> 
> There are other things that hurry me. One is, that there is no real
> working mechanism for left-handside+wildcard blacklisting. Thats also
> not so much, but sometimes it's annoying me why I can't filter those
> simple viagra/levrita mails that came with an envelope-sender in the
> art of 'levrata-soft.xxxx@xxx'. I didn't found a way, especially with
> wildcards.
> 
> Another thing: A lot of spam bots sending spam an in the HELO they
> say they are 'google.com'. Simply putting this to qmails badhelo is
> just funny. Those gave a good hitrate. But that only the most 
> obvious form of bad helos.
> 
> 
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