Raghavendra Bhat [Wed Jan 02, 2002 at 04:42:18PM +0530]: > Dr. Sharukh Pavri posts: > > > the mail gets deleted on the server itself w/o having to download it. > > Handy when you are on a dialup. > > This is a very useful tool for kicking spam at the POP3 server itself. > Can you give me any link/site from wherein I can get a set of standard > and exhaustive mailfilterrc file ? btw, Debian has packaged this uty. > > apt-get install mailfilter
I don't know about those but for my setup, I manually add all the addresses of spam mails. Unfortunately this means that you *have* to download the spam atleast the first time. You can aslo block entire domains, so if you block say *.hotmail.com, *.yahoo.com, *.yahoo.co.in, *.rediffmail.com, *.sexcite.com and a few others, you are home free. You just have to add an ALLOW=^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] and similar lines for all your friends who use one of your blocked sites. The ALLOW= lines must preced the DENY= lines. > > As an aside, I have this tool called as 'razor' installed. I can report > spam mails to the site, which keeps a database of such reports. The > question is, can I extract the headers from this database to be used in > my .mailfilterrc ? I have no idea but you could ask on the mailfilter list. There were some reports of razor getting some mails wrongly as spam. I read this on the mutt-users list. Of course this may have been solved by now. I would prefer to specify my own criteria for spam. I could send you my DENY= list off-list if you want. > Mailfilter works only on POP3 servers, FYI. Yes, anyway most (all ?) Indian ISPs give pop3. I may be wrong here. regards, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri Mumbai, India. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
