Re: Inline image spams

On 19 Dec 2006, Brian Burton wrote:
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> I've been experimenting with catching these using a simple procmail rule.
> Basically I put any email containing a cid: URL in a src attribute into a
> special folder unless the message is from a known source.  That seems to
> work extremely well.  Unfortunately it requires manual editing of the
> procmailrc to add additional domains to the white list.
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[snip] 

I didn't quite understand the above rule, but I've found that this
header line: 

	Content-Type: multipart/related;

is present in all such emails and in no others, including the legitimate
attachments I receive. Putting this in procmail has worked 100% so far.

Anthony

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