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!
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