On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 08:52:59AM -0500, Bill Cole wrote:
> On 11 Feb 2021, at 7:00, Loren Wilton wrote:
> 
> > I'm getting a lot of spams that all have a series of completely bogus 
> > Received headers in them. A characteristic of these headers is a 
> > rather improbable datestamp, considering today's date:
> >
> > Received: from 69-171-232-143.mail-mail.facebook.com 
> > ([69.171.232.143])
> > by oxsus1nmtai03p.internal.vadesecure.com with ngmta
> > id 0574d1a8-1628c15907fbaba1; Thu, 06 Aug 2020 18:30:56 +0000
> >
> > Note that this message must have been in flight for about a year and a 
> > half according to that header.
> 
> Minor pedantry: Actually just a few days more than half a year.
> 
> > Anyone know an easy way to check for a Received header date more than 
> > say a week old and add some points?
> 
> There is a received_within_months() eval in the HeaderEval plugin which 
> someone wrote at some point but failed to suitably document or even use. 
> There are also private functions there (e.g. 
> _get_received_header_times()) which seem potentially useful but which 
> <sigh> are also undocumented. If you feel like being a pioneer, you 
> could try creating rules to make use of that code.
> 
and if you want to become an hero patches to document those evals are always
welcome ;-)

 Giovanni

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