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Re: SPAM with a blank (empty) header

2000-11-11 23:26:41
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:05:13PM -0600, David W. Tamkin wrote:
Andrew asked,

| My "favorite" spammers have started sending their trash with empty "To:"
| headers.  Is there a way to write a procmail rule to delete such mail?

 :0: # brackets enclose space and tab
 * ^To:[      ]*$
 spambox

If you really are cocksure that only unwanted mail will be like that, drop
the second colon and file the messages in /dev/null.

Do you get mail from people whose mua's don't fill in a To: header?  I
would think that would be a fairly substantial breach of an rfc or
two.  Do the latest crop of Windows emailers not bother with To:'s?

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