aru Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 Tristan Frequent user Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 74 Location: Melbourne, Australia Post Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 1:34 am Post subject: Dealing with SPAM _________________________________________________________________ I've got a dialin account which I access at home with my MDK8.2 box. I receive 30-50 emails a day and about 3 of them are not spam. A lot of them are bogus "undeliverable mail" types, you open them and there is the offer to extend your elbow etc Shocked The problem is getting worse, and I've been looking at ways of dealing with it. 1 - Use email filters in sylpheed (or whatever your client is). Trouble is you have to download the mail first. 2 - Use a program like popcheck (http://www.algonet.se/~staham/linux/programs.html) to view and manually delete email on the server, without having to download it. This works very well and is fast. However it requires manually checking each email subject line. If you get huge amounts of spam it can be time consuming. 3 - Automatically delete spam on the server. I recently installed mailfilter (http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/ index.html), and it is really excellent. You define simple regexp rules for denying spam, and allowing non- spam. When you run mailfilter it connects to your pop3 server, compares the mail to your rules, and deletes the spam. Simple and effective! My service provider thoughtfully runs spam-assassin which marks nearly all spam as ***SPAM***, which makes mailfilter's task even simpler. Mailfilter also keeps a log file so you can keep track of what's deleted. I now routinely run a small script to deal with email... ##### # 1 - Auto delete spam. aterm -e mailfilter # 2 - Manually delete any missed spam. #These missed spams allow you to refine your mailfilter rules aterm -e popcheck (plus login details) # 3 - Download and read the real email. sylpheed ##### Hope this helps all of you spam sufferers! PS I originally (mistakenly) posted this in the networking section, sorry about that. ramfree17 Moderator Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 1262 Location: Philippines Post Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 4:35 am Post subject: _________________________________________________________________ moved the duplicate thread in offtopic. nothing i can do for the comments there. but i cant do anything about the existing comments there so ill unlock it when i get the time and connection. ciao! Editor's note: This thread was originally posted at the old MUB (Mandrake User Board at club-nihil). This post is the result of a 99% automatic backup, so due to its nature some text may be lost (improbable but possible). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.