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Old Dated spammish E-mails



You could use procmail and a perl script to parse the date of incoming
messages and send suspiciously dated ones to /dev/null.



On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 15:04, Randall Hofland wrote:
> I've been receiving spam-mails that are dated very old so they end up at
> the bottom of my e-mail heap. So far no indication that they are
> malicious, but I do find it odd that I continue to get them several
> times a day from different sources. They are mostly about losing weight.
> 
> Is there something going around that I should know about?
> 
> I've attached some examples of the headers on the spam:
> 
> 
> 
> Save on monthly mortgage payments!
>       Date:
>                ??, 14 ??? 2001 06:37:14 -0800
>     From:
>                palmda at telkom.net
>          To:
>                <Undisclosed.Recipients at estpak.ee>
> 
> 
> 
> Lose 43 pounds by June 15th? Get ready for summer!
>       Date:
>                Sun, 05 May 0102 09:04:05 -0600
>     From:
>                <brianjr at earthlink.net>
>          To:
>                <rhofland at fastdial.net>
> 
> 
>                Lose 75 lbs in a month?! BRAND ~NEW~ DIET PILL!
>       Date:
>                Sun, 05 May 0102 05:34:39 +1000
>     From:
>                <mrhealth at att.net>
>          To:
>                <rhofland at fastdial.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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