Hi Yash! I would *strongly* suggest using SpamAssassin on either your internal mail server(where fetchmail delivers) or the mail server from where the mails are being fetched.
I have been using it for the past three months and I am getting more and more amazed by it everyday. IMPORTANT NOTICE: SpamAssassin DOESN'T remove spam mails. So all of your users who are apprehensive of mails being lost, tell them it WON'T. SpamAssassin takes a look at your mail contents(subject,headers,body) and determines whether the mail is spam or not by using a number of heuristics, each carrying a weight. When the total weight crosses a predetermined threshhold, it modifies the SUBJECT by adding the tag "****SPAM****" to it. For users who want to get rid of spam, they simply have to add a filter/rule in their email client/MDA to move such messages to a different mail folder. They SHOULD check this folder once a while to see that no legitimate mails are tagged by mistake. But in the last three months I would say that SpamAssassin has been correct 99.9% of the time. Of course, you can change the threshold if you think too many mis-tags are happening. Even every user can have their own threshold. Check out http://www.spamassassin.org - Sandip At 06:12 PM 10/8/2002 +0530, you wrote: >Hi All, > I am fetching my mails with fetchmail, from online POP3 server. >I found there are a no of spamming emails like newsletter,product infos >etc etc. >Is there anyway i put some spamming control with my fetchmail. > >Regards, >-Yash ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sandip Bhattacharya Puroga Technologies Work: sandip <@> puroga.com, http://www.puroga.com Play: sandipb <@> bigfoot.com, http://www.sandipb.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
