[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Im fishing for suggestions for my qmail box at home. I'm trying to get rid of
>spam and have installed the rblsmtp program to help..
>What I'd like to also do is learn how to filter stuff thats not specifically
>addressed to me with procmail. Looking at Dave Sill's excellent "Life with
>Qmail" document, it seems that procmail needs some tweaking to work with qmail.
>Should I try to get procmail to work or would maildrop be a lot easier?
If you don't already know procmail, maildrop is probably the way to
go.
>And if
>maildrop would be the preferred method, does anyone have any rules for for
>blocking things not specifically addressed to the local user (i.e.
>http://www.css.tayloru.edu/~bbell/spam-filter/)
Can't help you there, but watch your use of "filter" and "block". In
antispam circles these mean different things. Filtering is passing
messages through a pattern matching tool and filing/munging/ignoring/
bouncing messages that match various patterns. Blocking is rejecting
SMTP connections from known/suspected/likely spammers. Bouncing can
occur in two places: during the SMTP dialogue and after the message
has been accepted by the MTA, but before delivery. On the case of
spam, bouncing during the SMTP dialogue is preferable since spam often
has invalid return paths and the initial SMTP session is the only
contact you'll have with the spammer.
-Dave
