From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spam I sort through. With SpamAssassin scoring it's easy to find
the low scores and concentrate on them. But somebody arrogant enough
to spam me with a challenge for a message to a mailing list ends
up on my procmail /dev/null rules. (I use fetchmail to grab mail
and procmail to feed it to /var/spool/mail/<name> with stops along
the way for SpamAssassin, ClamAv, and some random cleverness.)
Unfortunately, jdow, since your using this setup, the spammer has
already successfully delivered the mail to you. The fact that you
delete the spam before reading makes no difference - the spammer
doesen't know that and thinks they have successfully delivered it.
No they have not. They've managed to get it onto my machine, transiently.
It never got delivered to ME, the organic unit here at this email
address. I do vet spam. The items redirected to /dev/null are items
I do not want to bother with while vetting real spam.
Denying the spam before it's even accepted into the server is a
much better way. Unfortunately, a content filter means you have to
If you can make fetchmail do that you're pretty clever, kemo sabe.
{^_^}
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