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• Mail Filters (Score:2)

  by ziggy (25)

  methinks it's time to write a plonk filter for that sender. If you're not using procmail or Mail::Audit, it's a great reason to start.

  There's a mail virus that *really* likes me; it's sent me about 100 pieces of spam in the last month, roughly totalling 50MB. I read most of my mail on the server, so this works for me (no download-and-delete issue on the downstream pipe).
  • Re:Mail Filters (Score:1)

    by Elian (119)

    Unfortunately they're all coming from different people--I don't think I've gotten two from the same person yet. I'm a little hesitant to just start throwing mail filters at the problem yet. I get a fair amount of unsolicited email as it is, and I'd rather not take the chance of throwing away someone's real mail.
    
    I'm running OS X, so it's not like I'm vulnerable to this particular problem. It's just damned annoying.
    • Re:Mail Filters (Score:2)

      by gnat (29) on 2002.04.20 3:23 (#7303) Journal

      I installed SpamAssassin and haven't looked back. Between procmail and SA, I can nuke most spam. I don't shitcan spam, I store it in a folder that I check once every couple of days to see whether any unspam was accidentally trapped. I believe they call this "gray" mail (as opposed to black and white shitcanning or passing through of email).

      --Nat

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