spam from .US

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kenuk
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spam from .US

Wed May 17, 2017 6:22 am

I have been getting a very large number of spam emails from addresses ending in .us and have been adding the domains to my blacklist. I have no friends anywhere in the USA. My blacklikst is now quite long and it slows down the washing process! The email addresses vary in components e.g. something@folder1.us something@folder1.folder2.us and something@folder1.folder2.folder3.us etc. It occurs to me that if it were possible to use multiple wildcards I could reduce these to three or four entries.
Is it possible to do the equivalent of: *@*.us or *@*.*.us ? Thanks
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Re: spam from .US

Wed May 17, 2017 6:30 am

kenuk wrote:My blacklikst is now quite long and it slows down the washing process!
Right, you might want to start enjoying the advantages of filters over blacklists — it's never too late. ;)

kenuk wrote:I have been getting a very large number of spam emails from addresses ending in .us and have been adding the domains to my blacklist. I have no friends anywhere in the USA.
kenuk wrote:The email addresses vary in components e.g. something@folder1.us something@folder1.folder2.us and something@folder1.folder2.folder3.us etc. It occurs to me that if it were possible to use multiple wildcards I could reduce these to three or four entries.
Is it possible to do the equivalent of: *@*.us or *@*.*.us ? Thanks
Take a look at these graphic illustrations for the Netherlands (.nl) filter — you may try substituting .nl with .us
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Re: spam from .US

Wed May 17, 2017 7:22 am

I have no friends anywhere in the USA.
That has nothing to do with it. Any body can use .US.

I live in the US and I don't know of any sites I visit that use .US either.
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kenuk
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Re: spam from .US

Thu May 18, 2017 10:08 pm

Thanks so much - I had never used filters but they did the trick!
kenuk
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Re: spam from .US

Wed May 24, 2017 9:10 am

A bit more help needed! Although this rule works fairly well it seems to ignore the fullstop before the letters 'us'. The result is that any words that contain the letter 'u' followed by the letter 's' are treated as spam. For example admin@business.com would get washed. Is there a way to force the rule to work only if there is a fullstop?
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Re: spam from .US

Wed May 24, 2017 9:14 am

Then use .us instead.
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Re: spam from .US

Wed May 24, 2017 9:44 am

kenuk wrote:A bit more help needed! Although this rule works fairly well it seems to ignore the fullstop before the letters 'us'. The result is that any words that contain the letter 'u' followed by the letter 's' are treated as spam. For example admin@business.com would get washed. Is there a way to force the rule to work only if there is a fullstop?
You can try \.us
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Re: spam from .US

Thu May 25, 2017 6:38 pm

Thank you TrustFire. Using the \.us does the job - you obviously know this software inside out!
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Re: spam from .US

Thu May 25, 2017 7:18 pm

Appreciate your feedback, kenuk — have made the necessary change to my illustration, too . . . . . thanks to you. :thumbsup
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