sieve rule needed

[Ken Murchison]

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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>>
>> 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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