I had people spamming my work account with "porn". So my boss and I could go as "root" pine -f /var/mail/myusername to findout Your solution :- -Just get your ISP to install procmail. - Block out free email accounts like hotmail, yahoomail, start.com.au, email.com - People always use those email accounts to spam you. - Avoid giving away your real email to user forum groups like deja, - There is a book from O'Rielly which explains how you can combat this problem. On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, a mole wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, eric clover wrote: > > > Please!!! > > there HAS to be a way to Block this crap!! > > for around a year we have been getting spam from <> with a reply address of > > <> > > > below is the header, notice the date it was sent : > > Date: > > Sun, 12 Jul 1998 07:41:13 -0400 (EDT) > > > > this date stays the same for every spam we have received. > > Suspicious. I don't think you're getting alot of spam but rather the same > spam repeatidly. I don't know how you're getting/processing your mail so > maybe this does apply but where I work we had a similar problem/symptom. > > An email (invariable a peice of spam) would arrive with From: set to <> and > the To: header completly missing. Looking at the headers you posted this > appears to match what you are seeing. It seems that the pop daemon would > get confused by the missing To: header so this email would be downloaded by > the email client but never deleted or marked read. So the next time the > email client connected it would download the same peice of mail. Again and > again and again. > > Possibly this is your problem. Possible this is happening, but some where > upstream of you that you have no control over. I realise that doesn't > really answer your question, how to filter it, but we'd need to know how > your mail is being handled to answer that. > > M. > > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. -- -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
