Re: VBounce and backscatter

2013-04-09 Thread Noel
On 4/9/2013 9:38 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi all, > > I've had a few users lately complain about possible backscatter. I > found Justin's blog post from way back in 2007 about VBounce. It's > always been enabled, but I didn't realize it needed a special > config file variable to be set in order to be util

VBounce and backscatter

2013-04-09 Thread Alex
Hi all, I've had a few users lately complain about possible backscatter. I found Justin's blog post from way back in 2007 about VBounce. It's always been enabled, but I didn't realize it needed a special config file variable to be set in order to be utilized properly. His article is here: http://

Re: Verifying .procmailrc settings to delete high scoring spam messages

2013-04-09 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Sun, 7 Apr 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: Thomas Cameron wrote: I believe that would match ... and redirect the e-mail to /dev/null. Am I right? I would'nt comment on the exact procmail syntax. I have lots of procmail rules but wrote them long ago and my memory is getting rusty. I would commen

Re: Dev-nulling is a bad idea [Was: Verifying .procmailrc settings to delete high scoring spam messages]

2013-04-09 Thread Ian Turner
On Monday, April 08, 2013 05:06:57 PM Walter Hurry wrote: > I agree that dev-nulling is generally a bad idea, but there may be > exceptions. > > For example, I dump everything from hinet.net straight onto the floor. FWIW, I get ham from hinet.net. IMHO, it is not appropriate to drop mail no matt

Re: Much better procmail alternative (was Re: Verifying .procmailrc settings to delete high scoring spam messages)

2013-04-09 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 19:41 -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: > On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 16:02:27 -0600 > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, no. While procmail implements some flavor of > > > "extended" Regular Expressions, there are still quite some > > > differences