On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:30:16 +0200, csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:16:31 -0400, > 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. > > > > Any other headers that I need to check for? > > Check for size. Delete everything over 40K. > My ISP thinks it's doing me a favor by removing windows executables and throwing a virus warning in as an attachment in its place. So most of this junk is only around 15K but on dial-up it still bogs me down.
Since I'm doing the filtering myself now, I wish they'd leave it be. I never liked them modifying my headers. Reading their headers it appears they do use SA, if it trims anything I guess I wouldn't know. The blocking windows executables is a nightmare too. I spent a few weeks helping a buddy with BASIC, I had to walk him through saving the mail as *.bas, and editing it because he didn't want to install WinZip. I tried getting an attached *.bas file that was stripped, and never heard from them. I can't imagine that these executables are actually being stored. I'm just glad I'm using Linux right now, I never learned vbs and I'd sure hate to try to do all of this background stuff with bat files and windows scheduler. Michael C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mcsuper5.freeshell.org/ Registered Linux User #303915 http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
