(Subject changed to avoid Chuq's filters!) At 12:40 AM 9/27/2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: >As far as I can tell (and as far as I'm concerned), any mail I get that >referencee that site is spam, and is tossed into the spam folder. Which is >how I saw this -- I'm clearing that folder out, and setting that procmail >rule to /dev/null. Good timing!
Well, you can do what you want, but it's "generally accepted practice" to 'whitelist' or 'greenlist' subscribed mailing lists and other known sources (your boss, your mother) before dumping mail. The mail you responded to just disproved your "any mail I get that referencee that site is spam" hypothesis. It's also "generally accepted" that it's virtually impossible to identify spam by body content alone. A number of well-meaning admins (which I consider incompetent, since they're deleting SOMEBODY ELSE's mail) have been tossing discussions about viruses, based on overly-simple-minded body filters. You don't have to accept my definition of "generally accepted," but that's how I choose to interpret the discussions on the procmail mailing list (see the procmail man page to subscribe). If anyone reading this is contemplating using procmail to filter, I'd recommend subscribing to that list for a while, at least until your recipes are stable. [Since you're using procmail, you can probably improve your false-match rate by using "scoring" if you're going to use body filters anyway, by counting things rather than just the match/nomatch criteria available in the simple typical MUA filters.] Cheers, Stan
