{"id":7572,"date":"2004-06-15T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/15\/sa_patgen\/"},"modified":"2005-04-26T01:58:31","modified_gmt":"2005-04-25T22:58:31","slug":"sa_patgen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/15\/sa_patgen\/","title":{"rendered":"sa_patgen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A lot of spammers use modified words to get throuth spam filters. What they do is take a word like ‘casino’ and insert a random character into it. For example ‘ca!sino’. If you get a lot of spam with words modifed like this, then you can use sa_patgen.pl to generate pattern rules for SpamAssassin.<\/p>\n

All you have to do is specify the score to add for each modified word match (I use 0.5) and a list of words like casino, gambling, viagra, etc. The script will output a set of rules to match modified words. You can save the output in your local.cf file or pipe it somewhere else.<\/p>\n

sa_patgen.pl<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

A lot of spammers use modified words to get throuth spam filters. What they do is take a word like ‘casino’ and insert a random character into it. For example ‘ca!sino’. If you get a lot of spam with words modifed like this, then you can use sa_patgen.pl to generate pattern rules for SpamAssassin. 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