Thanks, Leonid.
I suppose that one way to set this up would be to take every list that I
have mail coming in from; ^TO.*<listname>, have this mail sorted to the
specific folders. Then have mail addressed directly to me;
^TO.*(glenlee|GLEdwards) sent to a special folder. That should take care
of all expected mail. Anything that isn't filtered by the above goes to
/dev/null. Is there some way in Procmail to return a letter to the sender
with a rejection message? I'm currently doing this from /etc/mail/deny.
Some Linux lists are using a service called http://mail-abuse.org to
filter out spammers. Problem with this service is that it not only
focuses on known spammers, it also checks for certain Linux mailer
configurations, and if you have this configuration your mail is rejected
from the list even if you've never sent a spam mail in your life. It's
the Hitler mentality. Hitler slaughtered legions of Jews because he
believed they had the potential for world economic domination and because
he considered them to be an inferior race. They weren't slaughtered
because of personal crimes they as individuals committed, but because they
had the potential to do so. mail-abuse.org follows this lead, rejecting
mail sent from Linux boxes with certain configurations because they have
the potential to spam, not because they have.
Big brother is coming. In a computer dominated society once he controls
all our boxes he controls us.
Glen
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Leonid Mamtchenkov wrote:
>Hello Glen Lee Edwards,
>
>Once you wrote about "Re: test post":
>> Cool. I'm still here.
>>
>> I have a mail question: I'm trying to find a way to get rid of spam mail.
>> When I pull up the header of the offending party what specific part do I
>> need to add to /etc/deny; From:, X-Sender:, Received from: ?
>>
>
>Best of all is to use procmail to filter out the spam messages. There
>you can do whatever you want. I have filters on:
>- few domains that try to spam me
>- words "get", "free", "$$$", "make", "money", "join", "member" in the subject
>- same words in the body of the message
>- domains that does not belong to me (like they usually send to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED])
>- few other small things...
>
>
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