| Valid AOL address are 10 characters or less and also has to begin with a
| letter and not a number also.
Also, as they arrive in email, spaces are stripped out, so the
characters after the first may be only alphabetics or digits.
| How can I match this so as to be able to filter out invalid AOL From:s?
Shall we take a negative approach ...
* ! ^From: *([^a-z]|.+[^0-9a-z]|............)(_dot_)*(_at_)aol\(_dot_)com$
I tried the above recipe out and it works great at catching SPAM. Caught
four SPAMS and two legitimate emails. I'm leaving the legitimate From
fields out but both were normal user(_at_)domain addys with no numerals.
From: 98087634(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com
From: 28449558(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com
From: Manager <tka(_at_)hytop(_dot_)com>
From: Manager <tka(_at_)hytop(_dot_)com>
I am using it like such:
:0:
* ! ^From: *([^a-z]|.+[^0-9a-z]|............)(_dot_)*(_at_)aol\(_dot_)com$
$PINEDIR/AOLTRAP
For the life of me, I can't figure out the connection between the above
addresses and why the filter picked them out. I'm not getting any kind
of log error.
Ideas?
Regards,
Dave/Webmaster
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