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Recently spammers are sending emails with one or two spaces ahead of the subject text and these are getting through the filters. Suggestions?

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Problem first appeared a week or so back, so may be a new technique or an update has caued the filters to miss these.

Problem first appeared a week or so back, so may be a new technique or an update has caued the filters to miss these.

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Perhaps we should have said only that these messages are getting to the inbox now and did not previously. What might we do to stop them?

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This could happen if a filter looked for 'Subject begins with...' instead of 'Subject contains....'.