Re: [OT] Only allow mail from selected addresses

2002-04-29 Thread m2
Thanks for all the input. I ended up using a primitive hack inspired by this page: http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/12/spam-filtering.html We'll see how it works. op -- o polite http://plusseven.com/gpg/

[OT] Only allow mail from selected addresses

2002-04-28 Thread m2
Maybe this is more of a procmail or fetchmail or spamassassin question. I'm running spamassassin on all mail to my private address. It catches 95% of all spam. I'm really quite impressed. However to rid my private inbox of that last 5% of spam I'd like to only accept messages from a list of

Re: [OT] Only allow mail from selected addresses

2002-04-28 Thread David T-G
m2 -- ...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said... % % Maybe this is more of a procmail or fetchmail or spamassassin question. Yep. % I'm running spamassassin on all mail to my private address. It catches ... % on previous occasions and addresses of people I've sent stuff to. I'd use the SA

Re: [OT] Only allow mail from selected addresses

2002-04-28 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04/28/02 14:47:22 CEST] wrote: Maybe this is more of a procmail or fetchmail or spamassassin question. Absolutely. I'm running spamassassin on all mail to my private address. It catches 95% of all spam. I'm really quite impressed. However to rid my private inbox of

Re: [OT] Only allow mail from selected addresses

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: 95% of all spam. I'm really quite impressed. However to rid my private inbox of that last 5% of spam I'd like to only accept messages from a list of addresses, maybe including mail that has made it into my inbox on previous occasions and addresses of people

Re: [OT] Only allow mail from selected addresses

2002-04-28 Thread Will Yardley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe this is more of a procmail or fetchmail or spamassassin question. I'm running spamassassin on all mail to my private address. It catches 95% of all spam. I'm really quite impressed. However to rid my private inbox of that last 5% of spam I'd like to only accept

Re: [OT] Only allow mail from selected addresses

2002-04-28 Thread David T-G
Shawn, et al -- ...and then Shawn McMahon said... % .. % Whitelisting is horribly complicated to get right, and if you get it Agreed. % wrong, it's guaranteed to bounce legitimate mail. Well, only if you also set it up to dump everything instead of retaining the last vestige of sensibility

Re: [OT] Only allow mail from selected addresses

2002-04-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:47:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However to rid my private inbox of that last 5% of spam I'd like to only accept messages from a list of addresses... Relatively untested, but how about: # check whitelist. reverse the sense of the fgrep... FROM=`formail