We are getting a lot of Spam mail addressed in this format "name"username@ourcompany.com for example "James"Andrew.Bone@ourcompany.com. Name does not correspond to the username. These emails are being delivered to the correct username. Is there any way of writing server mail rules to block emails where name does not correspond to username? Ie some sort of lookup on the person document? Don’t know of any server settings which would stop this.
Subject: Server mail rule Question
These are very common but there is no way with standard mail rules to identify them. It would probably be possible to customise the rules library to do this but I would be very surprised if some other, more easily filterable spam characteristic were not also present.
Subject: Server mail rule Question
In each user’s personal rules, you might be able to do something like this:
WHEN to or cc contains " <username@ourcompany.com AND to or cc does not contain e" <username@ourcompany.com
This example would presume that the user’s name ends in “e”. If you want to allow for the quoted string to either be the user’s first or last name, you’d obviously need a more complex rule.
The problem is the quote character. I remember trying some experiments a while back to see if I could do some rule hacking by entering quote character, and that didn’t work. I don’t think I ever tried escaping the quote, and I’m not sure if that would have the behavior desired here, or whether it would prematurely terminate the search string. The latter case, though not what we want, could actually open up some really interesting hacking possibilities :-)) See my comment in Chris’ blog here: http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-6BUHHP
Subject: RE: Server mail rule Question
Thanks for the prompt replies