On Thursday 21 February 2002 11:29 am, Tim Wunder wrote: > What I want to do is filter out spam, especially for my youngest, who is > fast approaching 10 years of age (man, I'm getting old...). So, for > that, I assume that I need procmail. But, if I start using procmail, > what happens to the mail that sendmail distributes to > /var/spool/mail/<user>? Doesn't procmail process the mail and put it in > /home/<user>/mbox? Or can I control where procmail puts stuff? If I use > procmail to process the mail, can I still retrieve it via POP from the > Internet? Is there a better way to process the mail to remove spam?
By all means get Spamassassin..... look at spamassassin.sourceforge.net I think or do a google search on spamassassin. It is excellent. I spent many years writting my own spam filter programs and never came close to what SA does... It gives every email a score based on anything from 'bad words' to being in HTML format to checking the sender against several blocking DB's... etc etc etc. and it is totally tailorable. The normal threshold for spam is 5 points... below that it gets delivered. I put everything from 5 to 10 points into a special mailbox to look at. (might be some good mail in there but hardly ever) Everything 10 and above I now send to /dev/null. In the last two weeks I've sent 709 emails to /dev/null. Don't even have to bother with them. The instructions for SA even give you the procmail recipe for use with SA. It's a no brainer. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 02/21/02 11:42 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "He who has a shady past knows that nice guys finish last." _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
