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Spam Issues
Hi,

The spam fighting given to admin now is very limited and restricted to the 'From' field. This really is not enough as many spam can be stopped at source if admin was also able to filter To and Subject fields as well.

For example:

1) When there is no TO (Actually now GM calls it 'No To' and it is always spam)

2) When there is a large number of recipients in To header (Say more than 20)

3) When there are many entries in 'to' or 'cc' fields and many of these are invalid. For example, if my email address is franklo@domain.com then I get spam as follows:

frank@domain.com, frank1@domain.com, frank2@domain.com, frankl@domain.com, franklo@domain.com,...

Meaning whoever is sending the spam is trying various variations hoping that one is correct. So what I would like to see is that, in case of multiple recipients to same domain, if one of the recipients is invalid then no message will be delivered to any. Meaning in the example above, the fact that frank@domain.com, frank1@domain.com, frank2@domain.com, will prevent franklo@domain.com from receiving spam.

4) If 'to' or 'cc' have same username at multiple domains...e.g. franklo@domain1.com, franklo@domain2.com, franklo@domain3.com, franklo@domain4.com, franklo@domain5.com, franklo@domain6.com...

5) When 'to' shows something like: 'Undisclosed Recipients@..."

Then again this is invariably spam and so no message should be delivered to anyone.

Is the above doable?

Thanks

Frank

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frankLo: Mar 16, 2002, 1:44 PM
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