On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:40:02AM +0000, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > I've recently started using mailfilter (called as a precommand from > fetchmail) and it works really well. (I have had a couple of mail addresses > faked by spammers, so I've had tens of thousands of mail bounces over the > last month.) > > If a mail slips through, I add another rule to cope. However, I find it is > not deleting mail messages where the mail address does not appear in the To: > field, but appears as a 'for' line elsewhere in the header. In the example > below, the faked address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I have set > up a DENY filter to delete it from the server. But it doesn't work. Is there > something wrong with my regexp? > > ----vvvv ---- Filter in .mailfilterrc ---- vvvvv ----- > # Filter rules for detecting spam (each rule must be placed > # in a seperate line) > # These filters detect certain unpleasant e-mail subjects: > DENY=^To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DENY=^To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---- ^^^ ----- Filter in .mailfilterrc ---- ^^^^ ------- You have to Escape the dots (.) with a backslash (\)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe their are other things wrong. btw, if you get a lot of mails (me ist about 400-600 a day) it might be faster to do the thing with procmail. I've no flatrate (ISDN paying per minute) and it took me a lot of time checking 400 mail with say 30-40 pattern. So I decided to block only aol, msn and other in the frontier and I'll set up the rest with procmail. Sven -- Lamer! :)\nLokaler Admin mit enormen Rechten[tm] [Christian Schneider und Jens Himmelrath in alt.hacker.org-gcf] http://www.linux-secure.de http://www.linuxboard.de http://www.bluephod.net http://www.disconow.de
