On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 08:54:20AM -0800, Matthias Weingart enlightened
us thusly
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:44:19AM -0800, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:09:20PM -0800, Jan Wuesten enlightened us
> > thusly
> >
> > I wouldn't send html mail if you want me to answer it. I have mutt
> > which has to be persuaded to start a browser to look at html mail. I
> > never bothered to recompile, as it is an effective spam filter.
>
> Hi Declan,
>
> just use a mailcap for mutt:
>
> .muttmailcap text/html; lynx -force_html -dump %s ; copiousoutput
> application/pdf; pdf2ascii %s ; copiousoutput application/postscript;
> ps2ascii %s ; copiousoutput application/msword; antiword %s;
> copiousoutput
>
I have something like that. But _all_ spam is in html, and basically no
mail comes that way. So I just delete all HTML mail unless I have some
reason to think it's real. I recognized Jan's name; If it had an
attachment, it would have been junked without thinking, but just for
curiousity I opened it. BTW, Is antiword any use?
> and you get all binary mails in fine text format. Works quite good.
> However to avoid getting spam you should drop/delete/kill your current
> email and use a new one, and publish it only a gif-image at your
> website (and use formmail.cgi). I reduced the SPAM I get from >150 per
> day down to only 4 per day now.
I'm on a dialup, Matthias and that cgi scripts are not for my end. There
doesn't appear to be a formmail.cgi on ntlworld. How does the thing
actually work?
It's this bad: My son-in-law in Italy wanted my e-mail, so he googled
for "Declan Moriarty". He got it from this list archives, the
linuxfromscratch.org archives, and an old one from the linux-laptop
archives. I'll change away from qmail and go to a spam filter next time
I rebuild the OS.
--
With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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