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Filtering Wierd Character Strings

2004-08-10 13:10:44
Hi All,

Apparently, I am noticing a new reoccurring problem with certain email
messages.  Every now and then when checking mail with MS Outlook Express,
the email will get stuck on a message saying "Receiving message 107 or 298"
When I check message 107 from the Linux system, I find that the messages
ends with the characters ^@  sometimes there is more than one in a series
such as ^(_at_)^@^(_at_)^@ etc.  I'd like to filter the messages that contain 
this
string and just dump them complete from the system (/dev/null).  Is there
anyway to filter the body of the message to automatically remove the email
if it contains that string of text.

Also, if anyone has had the same problem, is this something new that the
spammers are doing to screw with normal email life...  It appears to only
happen in junk email, I haven't noticed it in anything legit.

Here is a portion of my procmailrc file, maybe there is something wrong in
there that causes email to put that funky stuff (^@) at the end of the
emails.

VIRTUALHOME=`/home/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d $EXT(_at_)$HOST`
MAILDIR=$VIRTUALHOME/Maildir
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log

:0fw
* ^Subject:."Re: Your software"
/dev/null

:0fw
* ^From:."Katherine"
/dev/null

:0fw
* ^From:."my computer"
/dev/null

:0fw
* < 15000
| /usr/bin/spamc

:0:
* ^Subject:.[SPAM]
$MAILDIR

:0
*
$MAILDIR


Any help anyone can provide to help resolve this issue is greatly
appreciated.

Thanks


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