On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Marty wrote:

> > QUESTION: How can I do spam-filtering in sendmail when calling it from
> > 'fetchmail' ? Has anyone done this? Normal methods dont seem to work.
> 
> if your thinking about using maps/orbs/other blacklist it won't work...
> they rely on denying connections from certain hosts...

The mail will have "Received:" header lines. Any way to use those?

> your connections will be coming from fetchmail and hence 127.0.0.1
> 
> it is your isp or whoever is providing the pop box that needs to apply the
> filtering for it to work...

I can do filtering with procmail, but want to be able to get fetchmail to
bounce certain senders, or mailboxes. Whats the best way?
  Should I use procmail commands to generate bounces?

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                          --==--
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