On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Ernie Dunbar wrote:

Detection of such a message is a piece of cake. Any message containing a Very Large html table (even more than 50 table data fields, or one that is disproportionately wide could qualify) could trigger such a test, but I have no idea about how to do a count like that in a regular expression. In fact, as far as I know, you can't.

Does this mean that there's no meaningful way to test for this in
Spamassassin?

Unfortunately no, at least at this time. rawbody rules don't do multiline matching (which would allow column counting), and rules in general are just hit-or-miss, not hit-N-times.

Try what I just posted. It's not perfect bu it's better than nothing at all.

Example table follows:

Please don't do that.

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