Anti spam solutions

JoeHill joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 9 06:57:32 UTC 2003


On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 01:50:14 -0400 (EDT)
"Chris F.A. Johnson" <c.f.a.johnson-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> uttered:

>      That would probably take care of it in my script, too; the main
>      reason for not using procmail is to prevent having to download
>      multimegabytes every hour.
> 
>      Another program that delete at the source is mailfilter:
> 
>        <http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/>
> 
>      Unfortunately, it only reads the headers, and I found that the
>      most reliable block was in the top 10 to 20 lines of the body (as
>      also shown by your solution), so I wrote the script. The regex
>      files do need tuning.

I currently use Mailfilter to snag the obvious ones (it catches most of
the MS Patch types anyway, currently) and this with Procmail:

http://agriroot.aua.gr/~nikant/nkvir/

to filter out the rest.

Could your script be called by fetchmail the same way Mailfilter is *at
the same time*? or would I need to call it seperately, say as a cron job
or something?

This is the one feature I would like to see in MF, the ability to look
for attachments, but the developer seems pretty much dead against taking
it in that direction to keep it on the light side.

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