Re: [PLUG] procmail/egrep/digits question

[Bob Schwier <schwepes@netaxs.com>]

That would create a problem with legitimate users from such services as
AOL which seems to frequently use the form of a common name and a number.
bs


On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Fred K Ollinger wrote:

> I have noticed that many spammers use numbers in their email addresses.
> 
> I wish to block any domain with any number in it at all. I created a
> simple recipe that worked great w/ egrep from command line, but I'm still
> seeing bloody numbers in the domain names when I run my script to examine
> spam. Why?
> 
> Here's the recipe:
> 
> \@*[[:digit:]]
> 
> I can send the spamsift.plx script if it's necessary, but basically, it
> just looks in my greybox and slurps up all the domains into a blacklist
> file. Probably not the best way to do things.
> 
> Anyway, anyone know why the digit recipe (above) fails when called by
> procmail?
> 
> Fred
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