[TriLUG] On the topic of SPAM - wrong time stamps?

[John Broome]

On 8/2/06, Tarus Balog <tarus at opennms.org> wrote:
> Gang:
>
> I get a lot of spam. Really. It's amazing how much spam I get.
>
> So I can usually spot a new virus (since those helpful mail gateways
> like to respond to my joe-jobbed e-mail address telling me that my
> e-mail about V1 at gra had a virus) or other new spam trends pretty quickly.
>
> What I've been seeing lately is a large number of spam messages with
> wrong time stamps, such as May 1, 2002, etc. This is actually very
> annoying since those that make it past my filters get sprinkled in
> throughout my old messages.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to get postfix to discard e-mails whose sent
> date is greater than, say, 48 hours?


Hi Tarus,

I was just doing a new SA install and saw this page:
http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_1_x.html

Check out the rules  DATE_IN_FUTURE_*  They may do what you want.