Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-19 Thread Daniel J Peng
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 05:33:05PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote: > I use the exact same procedure with the added benefit of automatically > accepting email from anyone in my company since so many of them bcc me or > use an alias that is not expanded. I simply use a rule that accepts all > mail from

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-19 Thread Duncan Watson
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:09:05PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote: > I'll just add my $0.02US to this and agree with Bruce's example. After > spending lots of time trying to weed out spammers, I found the most > effective filter was to simple accept all known addresses and everything > else goes int

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
raf proclaimed on mutt-users that: > not if you run procmail on the other side of the modem > before popping the mail to the local host. That saves you part of the cost - but your ISP still has to bear the cost of receiving the spam - and several ISPs figure out the costs involved in getting

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread raf
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Martin Treusch von Buttlar proclaimed on mutt-users that: > > > There is a tool called blcheck, which can be used as a procmail-filter, > > and it can use any DNS-RBL you like. I works great for me and you don't > > even need to pester your BOFH to enable this. >

Re: mailboxes (was Re: spamfilter for procmail)

2000-10-17 Thread Conor Daly
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:16:10PM +0300 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Mikko Hänninen thought: > Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 17 Oct 2000: > > Incidentally, does anyone know of a way to cycle through the list of > > folders with new mail on the "c" command. > > You mean, like

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Dave Pearson proclaimed on mutt-users that: > to be bothered with it. I'd call it a "cost saving" in that it becomes a > hell of a lot less annoying (and, if you're into reporting such email abuse > there is the added benefit of having the email so you can go to work on it). Point taken - and

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Dave Pearson
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:07:05PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Only hassle is that procmailing to block spam is like shutting the stable > _after_ the horse has bolted. You've already received the mail ... so any > saving in cost is illusory at best (esp with a desktop linux box >

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Mikko Hänninen proclaimed on mutt-users that: > I don't know, I think the annoyance factor reduction is quite > significant, and that shouldn't be discounted. True, there are no real > material cost savings achievable at this point. As a sysadmin for a largish isp + portal, my interests cent

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 17 Oct 2000: > Only hassle is that procmailing to block spam is like shutting the stable > _after_ the horse has bolted. You've already received the mail ... so any > saving in cost is illusory at best (esp with a desktop linux box conne

Re: mailboxes (was Re: spamfilter for procmail)

2000-10-17 Thread Dave Pearson
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:18:31AM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > Incidentally, does anyone know of a way to cycle through the list of > folders with new mail on the "c" command. for instance, my Work-related > mailboxes are listed before the lists in .muttrc but there's times when > I'm expecting a

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Martin Treusch von Buttlar proclaimed on mutt-users that: > There is a tool called blcheck, which can be used as a procmail-filter, > and it can use any DNS-RBL you like. I works great for me and you don't > even need to pester your BOFH to enable this. Like I said, spambouncer and walt dnes'

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Bob Bell
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:43:46PM -0700, Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > could someone post a simple spam receipe for procmail? I'm afraid I'll > end up filtering out my important mails. You know, things like distant > relatives writing to give me money and such.. > thanks I metho

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Martin Treusch von Buttlar
Hi, On 17.10, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Besides this, at the MTA level, see if you can get your sysadmin to > support the RBL and DUL blacklists at least (also the RSS if possible) - > http://www.mail-abuse.org There is a tool called blcheck, which can be used as a procmail-filter, and it

Re: mailboxes (was Re: spamfilter for procmail)

2000-10-17 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-10-17 10:18:31 +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > Incidentally, does anyone know of a way to cycle through the list > of folders with new mail on the "c" command. for instance, my > Work-related mailboxes are listed before the lists in .muttrc but > there's times when I'm expecting a response to

Re: mailboxes (was Re: spamfilter for procmail)

2000-10-17 Thread Bruce DeVisser
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:18:31AM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > Incidentally, does anyone know of a way to cycle through > the list of folders with new mail on the "c" command. for > instance, my Work-related mailboxes are listed before the > lists in .muttrc but there's times when I'm expecting a

Re: mailboxes (was Re: spamfilter for procmail)

2000-10-17 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 17 Oct 2000: > Incidentally, does anyone know of a way to cycle through the list of > folders with new mail on the "c" command. You mean, like space does? Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/ // T

mailboxes (was Re: spamfilter for procmail)

2000-10-17 Thread Conor Daly
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:09:05PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Michael Elkins thought: > > I'll just add my $0.02US to this and agree with Bruce's example. After > spending lots of time trying to weed out spammers, I found the most > effective filter was to simple accept all known ad

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-17 Thread Dave Ewart
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Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Dale Morris proclaimed on mutt-users that: > could someone post a simple spam receipe for procmail? I'm afraid I'll > end up filtering out my important mails. You know, things like distant > relatives writing to give me money and such.. Two of the best I've seen are - 1. Catherine Hampton's

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-16 Thread Michael Elkins
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:57:39PM -0400, Bruce DeVisser wrote: > Though this is off topic, might as well answer at the same > time. The following is what I have set up. It's not too > fancy. It doesn't toast the mail, it merely sticks it into a > 'spam' folder. This is the only way to be safe abo

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-16 Thread Jamie Novak
On 10/16, Dale Morris rearranged the electrons to read: > could someone post a simple spam receipe for procmail? I'm afraid I'll > end up filtering out my important mails. You know, things like distant > relatives writing to give me money and such.. > thanks Here are a few simple recipes I have

Re: spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-16 Thread Bruce DeVisser
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:43:46PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > could someone post a simple spam receipe for procmail? I'm > afraid I'll end up filtering out my important mails. You > know, things like distant relatives writing to give me > money and such.. thanks Though this is off topic, might

spamfilter for procmail

2000-10-16 Thread Dale Morris
could someone post a simple spam receipe for procmail? I'm afraid I'll end up filtering out my important mails. You know, things like distant relatives writing to give me money and such.. thanks