On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 19:38:59 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) uttered:
> Procmail may be able to stop some of that but you're really better off > using spamassassin. 90% of spam gets filtered out here. I don't even > have any procmail rules -- they're difficult for me to implement. With > spam assassin, there isn't a lot of configuration one has to do. Of > course, if you use your own mail system (for instance, I have postfix > running here and 99% of mail goes right to this system) then you can > implement controls over what gets rejected, such as eliminate whole > domains like *.tw if you want. The only reason I'm leaving Spamassassin out for now is that I want to learn Procmail, and how it works. 'Course that means also learning RegExp, which is a beotch! > I've experimented with trying to tweak postfix and found that it's > easy to break one's mail setup :(. Also that is true with procmail. > ONe misplaced colon and bye bye mail ;(. I've got a backup of my main.cf, and procmailrc, as everyone should... > Nigerian scammers should be shot. Surely not *just* Nigerian scammers?! Half of these prolly don't even come from Nigeria or Sierra Leone or whatever anyway... "No, and don't call me Shirley..." Name that movie! -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther
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