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Re: Help! Filter spam with "less than" symbol in recipient
From: Giles Coochey <giles_at_nospam>Date: Fri Oct 15 2010 - 10:11:35 GMT
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
On 15/10/2010 12:01, Niente0 wrote:
> Hello all, here's my problem:
> I'm receiving alot of spam which has a "<" (less than symbol) in the
> recipient field. For example, I have this in the header:
>
> To: "<"<aborda@koala.it>
>
> I'd need a spamassassin rule that's able to catch this spam, I had no
> success. The "less than" symbol seems to be uncatchable! (even if
> backslashed). I'm wondering if there's a rule to filter a recipient name.
> For the sender, I normally use this one:
>
> header FROM1 From:name =~ /EuroPrime Casino/i
>
> so I suppose that for the recipient it should be like this (I didn't find
> any documentation about it):
>
> header TO1 To:name =~ /EuroPrime Casino/i
>
> in particular (to filter the less than symbol):
>
> header TO1 To:name =~ /\</i
>
> but it seems no to work... Could you please help me? I'm desperate!
> Thanks :-)
Have you tried escaping it with \x3c ?
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