Hello.
I am wondering whether a means exists to filter using Procmail, using
Soundex.
It has occurred to me that, with spam that is set up to use misspelling
variants, using Soundex in filtering, would be quite useful.
One of the Subject field values that is used, as an example, at present,
is "Present for you".
Now, to set a string value for automatic deleting, of the exact string,
will only catch a small proportion of the mailicious messages, that are
mispelt variants of that field value.
But, as the messages come with a number of misspelling variants of each
word, in different combinations, it had occurred to me that if a
Soundex switch was available so that all possible misspelt variant
combinations of the string could be caught, for a single string value
set for filtering, it would be a relatively good solution (other than
finding the people responsible, and sending someone around with an axe,
to amputate all of the offenders' limbs).
So, does a means for filtering, using Soundex, exist in Procmail?
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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