Gary Dunn schrieb: >Awhile back I read about a program that would refuse to accept mail from >senders not on an approved list maintained by the recipient. I would >like to experiment with such a program. I use POP3 to a vanilla local >ISP (PIXI.NET, very nice, small, local Honolulu ISP, been with them for >years). Currently I use Evolution (LM 8.1) to pick up the mail directly. >I anticipate having to change to something like fetchmail, to provide a >place -- a hook -- where the blocking can occur. > >The key to this filter's functionality is that I don't have to predict >an expression to block unwanted mail. All mail is treated as unwanted >until I say it can be delivered. When someone not on my list sends me a >message, they receive an automatic reply with instructions how to get >around the block. This is slightly annoying to real people, but >effective against spammers who use bogus return addresses. > >What programs can be used for this? > > >
Check spamassassin (www.spamassassin.org), it is not exactly what you asked for but it works good - I use it and I love it. And there is Vipul's Razor at http://razor.sourceforge.net/ hth, Jan
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