[Mimedefang] Bodyless messages

Lucas Albers admin at cs.montana.edu
Tue Dec 2 17:47:49 EST 2003


get it with a sa rule:
header __TEXT_HTML_BA Content-Type =~ /text\/html/i
meta NO_BODY_BA __TEXT_HTML_BA && !HTML_MESSAGE
describe NO_BODY_BA Message with no body
score NO_BODY_BA 14

I use this to bounce messages that are blank.
>
> I've been getting spam, or maybe it's virus, with no message body.  It's
> as if some filter prior to our system has removed the body, or some
> amateur software is failing to insert its payload.  More than one a day
> is getting annoying.
>
> It seems reasonable to bounce mail with no body.  However I don't see a
> simple way to do so.  The best I got so far is to do a '-s' filetest on
> HEADERS and INPUTMSG and diagnose when INPUTMSG is one byte longer, but
> this seems clumsy.  Is there a neater trick?
>
> Joseph Brennan
> Academic Technologies Group, AcIS, Columbia University
>
>
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