On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 05:16, Michael C. wrote: > In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600 > > > "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails > > > > that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming > > > > is increasing exponentially. > > > > > > My solution has been exim4, exiscan-acl, clamav, spamassassin and liberal > > > use of shorewall's blacklist. > > > > Does that prevent the emails from being downloaded from the ISP's > > pop3 server in the 1st place? > > I asked this on alt.os.linux. I was told to search freshmeat.net for a > perl script called "poppy." It will get headers only, and ask what you > want to do with the mail one by one, but it also includes a script > called spamkill, which does okay. > > I'm debugging some changes I made now. I tweaked it so if my email > isn't in the To:, Cc:, or Bcc: header it should be considered spam. > > Right now To:, and Cc: both work.
Thanks. > Any other headers that I need to check for? > > BTW my normal traffic had been 23-30 messages a day for about two weeks, > it was close to half that 2 months ago. I know I've topped 350 in the > last 24 hours. > > I wonder if this is a particularly nasty bug, or we're feeling the > effects of Verisign's decision to claim *.com and *.net? It's a new one called Swen. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Whatever may be the moral ambiguities of the so-called demoratic nations and however serious may be their failure to conform perfectly to their democratic ideals, it is sheer moral perversity to equate the inconsistencies of a democratic civilization with the brutalities which modern tyrannical states practice." Reinhold Nieburhr, ca. 1940 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
