Blocking Spam With "re [x]:" In Subject

[Guest]

hi. i've been getting a lot of spam lately with the subject of something like "Re [2]" or "Re[25]" . It's "Re" with a number. Is there any way to block this using spamassassin on hostpc? if so how? I didn't see any settings for this. thanks.

[Joe]

Not really - you'd end up eliminating everything with Re: in it.

I've seen the ones you're talking about - usually they have a virus attached, so be careful.

[eugene]

Originally posted by Joe@Oct 11 2004, 03:29 PM
Not really - you'd end up eliminating everything with Re: in it.

I've seen the ones you're talking about - usually they have a virus attached, so be careful.
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Joe,
I haven't tried this before, but could you block "Re ["?
-Eugene

[ozee]

Originally posted by Joe@Oct 11 2004, 03:29 PM
... usually they have a virus attached, so be careful.
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That's why we need server-based virus filtering.

Amazingly, SA is catching these 100% on my accounts. SA can then be set to throw out your spam instead of just marking it. I'm still having SA only mark spam until I'm confident in its scoring, at which point I'll set it to just dump the trash. But right now, the combination of SA and Thunderbird are doing a good job with spam.

[tnas]

I've been very pleased with SA not marking "good" messages as SPAM.

It is flagging around 50% of my SPAM as SPAM.

Thanks for this great addition to your hosting services!

[Guest]

How do you have spamassassin set up to catch these re [x] e-mails?

Originally posted by ozee+Oct 12 2004, 07:07 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ozee @ Oct 12 2004, 07:07 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Joe@Oct 11 2004, 03:29 PM
... usually they have a virus attached, so be careful.
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That's why we need server-based virus filtering.

Amazingly, SA is catching these 100% on my accounts. SA can then be set to throw out your spam instead of just marking it. I'm still having SA only mark spam until I'm confident in its scoring, at which point I'll set it to just dump the trash. But right now, the combination of SA and Thunderbird are doing a good job with spam.
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[Guest]

:D
I do fully agree with u, ie the importance of server-based virus filtering.
Its bettr to pick the viruses frm entry point itself
I heard about some of server based virus filtrng softwares,but the best thng i got was Safesquid proxy server. :blink:

Its inbuilt virus scanning facility is really good
With its double protection of clam AV and F-prot Antiviruses, i found the chance of failure is the least
More than this its an excellent content filtring software and a lot more.

U can get more details from their documentation at their site
www.safesquid.com (http://www.safesquid.com) < check it out B)

cheers :) :)

[mali]

If you have the possibility to use a regular expression filtering rule for your emails, you may use this expression: ^[Rr][Ee](\s?)([\[])([1-9][0-9]?)([\]])([:]?)$ . i spent hours on it but finally i got rid of them. Feel free to use...