On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:20:15 +0800, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:57:40PM +0800, Brian Walker wrote: >> >> Can I add a line to procmail to prefilter spam with mailfilter, before >> letting spamassassin get to work? > > mailfilter operates on the POP3 mailbox on the remote server, not on > stuff you've already retrieved. You can add 'preconnect "mailfilter"' to > ~/.fetchmailrc, to get fetchmail to preprocess your POP3 box with > mailfilter before it retrieves the messages. > >> What about the line to add to delete swen messages? > > Probably the easiest way is simply to bin anything over 145k with > MAXSIZE_DENY=145000, then use ALLOW=^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] to > whitelist anyone who might really send you a genuine mail that big. > > This still lets through the ones around 15k in size that have had the > .exe stripped. These can be filtered out on the contents of the From:, > To: and sometimes Subject: headers. I "primed" my .mailfilterrc with > rules appropriate to what I'd seen in these headers at the time, and > have semi-automatedly stuck in extra rules to match the odd ones that > still slip through. The attached .mailfilterrc may be of some use. >
Fantastic and still more thanks. This seems to be doing the trick. Re preconnect, I added the precommand to KMail, and it seems to be doing just fine. The only thing lacking is writing to logfile, which I will fix today. All the best, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
