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Re: Identifying Phoney Email Addresses

2003-07-15 10:14:01
At 06:46 PM 7.15.2003 +0200, Dallman Ross wrote:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:31:44AM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote:
Am running Procmail v3.22 on FBSD-4.8 with SpamAssassin-2.55 and
Sendmail-8.12.8p.

I've seen procmail recipes on identifying suspicious sender emails
using all numbers, but mamny if not most of those now have a mixture
of alpha/numeric user names, like these two in a row:

ygciw651nk(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com
czlpxgyf1(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com

I would appreciate help on a procmail recipe that would identify the
above type of sender (From), but only if they exceed 6 digits. The 5-6
digits with a mixture of alpha/numeric are probably okay since many of
our emails come from radio operators with their unique FCC callsigns
which are typically 5-6 digits.

You also have to watch out for CompuServe addresses.  But I have
very good luck mistrusting local addresses with four or more numbers
at the *end*.

Scoring is ideal for what you want.  See `man procmailsc'.
Here is a recipe set:

      :0  # in brackets is caret, space, tab, @
      * ^From:(.*\<)?\/[^     @]+
      { LOCALPART = $MATCH }

      :0
      * -6^0
      *  1^1 LOCALPART ?? [0-9]
      { do something with the mail }

-- 
dman

 Thanks for the recipe. I'll experiment with it.

Yes, I was concerned about the Compuserve emails, but a look at several
thousand on our reader list, there are less than 1/2 dozen using the old CS
format of assigning all numbers.

Thanks again...

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

Sage American
http://www.sage-american.com
jacks(_at_)sage-american(_dot_)com

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