On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Tried that. This tactic is frequently unsuccessful. Some ISPs don't
> even care about your problem of receiving spam from their smtp servers.
> They just like to provide spammers with safe havens.
Unfortunately, before I started filtering, I also experienced
one or two of those. Instead of automatically complaining to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], I'd check first with
http://abuse.net/cgi-bin/list-abuse-addresses ... and often
look up the whois info to also complain to the owner of the
domain.
> > Procmail is an extremely versatile tool, and if it's available
> > on your ISP with shell account, you can configure it to recognize
> > and handle spam any way you want.
>
> This X-procmail setup that you have explained seems to be a very effective
> system. Would I need Linux, or some OS other than DOS in order to use
> procmail?
If you want to use it on your machine, I think you'd need to run
some type of 'nix. I won't say procmail has never been ported to
DOS, but I've never heard of it having been done.
If you have an ISP you can access via shell, you need merely insert
the appropriate filters in the appropriate place. Most often, the
system's procmail daemon will be looking for your filter as
~/.procmailrc, but it may vary with 'nix type, or even specific
domain.
http://alcor.concordia.ca/topics/email/auto/procmail/spam/ is where
I started. It's a pretty good tutorial, and the filters they supply
are a good starting point too.
Maybe you could ask your ISP to institute something like that
to be available to those who wish to use it.
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