Many use spam assassin but I know nothing about it. I use an app called ricochet. In kmail I create filters for spam that pipe it through ricochet. Ricochet analyzes the spam's headers, determines if the email address is faked (usually is) and also determines the appropriate abuse contacts for the given spam. It then emails the abuse contacts a nice email complaint requesting that the abuse contact stop the spammer/investigate the spam, provides the message and all the headers for this to be done, and warns of legal remedies if action isn't taken to stop the spammer (all very polite - though you can edit the message as you see fit).
I have all but eliminated much spam, particularly from sex sites and those obnoxious BUSINESS PROPOSAL messages. I do first test my filters in kmail by having it redirect spam to a spam folder so I can check it when it starts filling up to make sure the filters are good enough not to mistakenly filter non-spam. I started doing this with new filters because I have accidently sent spam complaints on people that shouldn't have been hit. Ricochet is a perl app that can be found at http://vipul.net/ricochet. praedor On Tuesday 03 September 2002 06:27 pm, Tim C wrote: > On September 3, 2002 14:08, John Richard Smith wrote: > > SPAM > > > > We all get it, but is there a good way of dealing with it. > > > > Seems to me I would like to be able to set something up in mozilla > > to send spam to, which either redirects it back to them, or zaps it. > > > > Is there anyway of doing this. > > > > John > > Here's the best solution I've found so far: > > http://spamassassin.org
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