* Rob 'Feztaa' Park ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey guys, I've been having this terrible problem with email spam and I > was wondering if you guys have similar problems, and if so, what you do > about them.
I vote for taking the spammer out and having him/her/them drawn and quartered. > Anyway, I keep getting advertisements for really disgusting porn. They > all seem to come from different addresses (although they're all from > hotmail, and they're all obviously spoofed - replies bounce). yep, typical. > However, I am quite lucky, because they all have one thing in common > that lets me filter them fairly easily: > > :0 > * ^Message-.*mx.+mail.home.com > $MAILDIR/spam > > :D > > So far, that procmail filter has filtered every single one, and hasn't > caught anything not-spam (as for the mx.+mail part, the message id > always ends with @mx, then a number or two, a hyphen, then two or three > seemingly random letters, then mail.home.com. If it's @home's mail server, it's probably an open relay somewhere, either from @home itself or some idiot set up his mail server wrong on his home machine and now it's being used for spam. Report though spamcop (www.spamcop.net) and/or to @home ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > I've spoken with my ISP about this, and they basically said "Hey, not > our fault, go away." also typical. True, but typical. -- Carl B. Constantine University of Victoria Programmer Analyst http://www.uvic.ca UNIX System Administrator Victoria, BC, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED]
