NFN Smith wrote:
> On the male enhancement spam that's hitting my spamtraps, I'm noticing
> that nearly all the messages (presumably a single spammer), are
> following a fairly regular pattern -- in particular, where either the
> first or second line of text shows some sort of colloquial greeting
> (e.g., "hi there" or "wazzup", or "good morning", etc.) followed by
> the the user portion of the target address. This is the spammer
> that's doing subject lines with a single "word", made up of random
> alpha characters.
>
> Is there a way of constructing one or more SA rules that can extract
> the user portion of the address, and then check the message body for a
> repeat of that string (without the domain portion of the address)?
Not with any simple combination of normal SA rules. You'd have to write
a plugin.