On 24-Jun-2003/09:17 -0400, "Reuben D. Budiardja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tuesday 24 June 2003 08:56 am, Anthony E. Greene wrote: >> On 18-Jun-2003/19:25 -0400, Gerry Doris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >I just filter them out using procmail. Anyone who sends me those stupid >> >messages gets all further mail sent to /dev/null. >> >> That is unfortunate. I use filters and a homegrown challenge/response >> system that operates like this: >> >> 1. Filter mail from mailing lists. >> 2. Filter mail from my scripts. >> 3. Delete mail marked by my ISP as spam (scored 10/10). >> 4. Delete mail in character sets which I cannot read. >> 5. Delete mail from unwanted senders (blacklist/killfile). >> 6. Filter mail from known senders (whitelist). >> 7. Filter mail that is in reply to a message from me. >> 8. Challenge all other mail. > >I understand 1-7. But what does 8 mean or do?
A procmail recipe delivers (pipes) the message to a script. The script stores the message locally in a file, then sends a challenge to the sender that includes a URL. The URL displays a web page with some warnings for spammers and a button that allows the user to have the message delivered. The script behind the web page sends a response message. the response message is caught by a procmail recipe that pipes the response message to a perl script which appends the original message to my Inbox. A daily cronjob calls tmpwatch to remove message files that are more than 7 days old. >And do you do all this using procmail ? A combination of procmail, perl, and formail. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
