On 7/18/24 5:10 AM, Grant Taylor via users wrote:
On 7/17/24 18:04, Matija Nalis wrote:
I.e. would you consider it to be significantly less likely to be spam if it contained "Dear 
Elizabeth," while being addressed to "mark@domain" instead of to "elizabeth@domain" ?

I've seen quite a bit of spam that opens message bodies with:

    <salutation> <local part>

Where <salutation> is "Dear" or some other greeting, often language specific and 
<local part> is the local part of the email address.

Something like the following is probably a good indication that it's spam:

--8<--
Dear ux37932,

I've missed talking to you, what is your opinion of <URL>?  Please check it out 
and let me know what you think.
-->8--

If there was any doubt about the paragraph, the "ux37932" makes it quite 
evident to a human that the name in the salutation is not real.  This is ESPECIALLY true 
when the name in the salutation is identical, byte for byte, including case, as the local 
part of the email address.

do you intend to have a rule like this one ?

header __TO_NAME     To:name =~ /(?<TO_NAME>.*)/
body   DEAR_NAME     /Dear %{TO_NAME}/

  Giovanni

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