I would second this. Also, if you use qmail or something similar to perform mail delivery, you can do a couple of other cool things:
1) You can create a delivery script that will pass all incoming
messages through SpamAssassin and bounce messages tagged as spam
instead of just filing them away. This is what I do, I recieve
/no/ spam right now, and I've had, I believe, one reported false
positive (a forward to a bunch of people in HTML format from a Hotmail
account.)
2) Users can easily create multiple mailboxes for themselves, which
they can give out to different people. That way when you get spam
on one of those addresses, you know who gave it out and you can just
turn off that address.
- neal
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:10:50PM +0100, Allan Jensen wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Maybe you should take a different approach and try to block spam as a whole?
>
> If your front end mailserver is *nix-based, I can recommend Spamassassin
> (http://www.spamassassin.org); easy install and pretty tweakable.
>
> On my system I now actually see 2-3% of the spams I did previously; the rest
> is just archived for later review just in case there is a false positive.
>
>
> Best regards,
> -Allan Jensen
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 30. november 2002 10:21
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Question on Blocking an ISP.
> >
> >
> > As of the last couple weeks, from 1 aol users i have gotten
> > over 1000+ virus emails. These emails are your tipical
> > freescreensaver virus that has been going around for years
> > now. It seems this person has an affected system. This is
> > not really my question or concern.
> >
> > I have been scanning though all the headers getting the proxy
> > email servers aol uses, but it seems like a endless list. LOL.
> >
> > I'm blocking these ips though IPchains, but i really would
> > like to know how to get every class owned by aol so i can
> > block them all.
> >
> > Receiving mail from aol is no big thing to me, considering
> > 99.9% of the time is junk or spam.
> >
> > Is there some way to whois arin on a nic handle to get all
> > the classes?
> >
> > Thank you.
> > -chris
> >
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--Victor Hugo
Les Miserables
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