[Mimedefang] Blocking tiny messages

Kees Theunissen theuniss at rijnh.nl
Tue Dec 5 05:52:50 EST 2006


On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> Given the recent run of messages that contain just a short number, I'm inclined
> to reject any message that contains a body of less than 20-40 bytes as being a
> nuisance. Does anyone have a piece of code that does that? (I'll copy it to the
> wiki.)
>
> I can white-list people who are expected to send one-word test messages.

Be prepared to false positives. Not all messages with a very small body
are spam or test messages.

How about a message with a subject of "Re: Meeting at 11.00 in the
meeting room." and a body with just "I'll be there."?
This body is well below 20 bytes.

Regards,

Kees.

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Kees Theunissen
F.O.M.-Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, Nieuwegein, Netherlands
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