sieve rule needed

[Marc G. Fournier]

Perfect, and thank you ... I set it to go to a 'garbage-can' folder, just 
in case, but at least it will keep the trash out of my regular mail ;)



On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Ken Murchison wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Scott Balmos wrote:
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> does anyone have a rule for sieve that will disregard emails coming in
>>>> with a subject that just contains garbage?
>>>> 
>>>> I can't even cut-n-paste an example ... :(
>>>> 
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>>>> (http://www.hub.org)
>>>> Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ:
>>>> 7615664
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>>>> 
>>> 
>>> if header :contains "Subject" "garbage"
>>> {
>>> discard;
>>> }
>>> 
>>> :D
>>> 
>>> Kind of hard to develop an exact, programmatic definition of what
>>> "garbage" is, right?
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry, figured that everyone else was probably getting this too, since it 
>> seems to be 'standard spam' nowadays :(
>> 
>> garbage == those messages whose subjects are all "non-ASCII" characters ...
>
> Just off the top of my head (its been so long since I wrote the regex draft 
> I'm not sure I remember the syntax):
>
> # the subject consists of nothing but non-printable characters
> if header :regex  :comparator "i;octet" "subject" "^[^[:print:]]+$" {
>  discard;
> }
>
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