Hi All, I am putting spamassassin, grrr...h it requires some perl modules. intalling them and get back to you.:) Thanks to all for providing valuable information.
REGARDS, -Yash On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:41:43AM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya spoke out thus: > 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 > -- Yashpal Nagar Systems Administrator Delhicall Centres 'Gurgaon' Ph 0124-6223849 , cell 9811499273 --------------------------- ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
