Re: Spam Killer Suggestion

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Date: 09/20/03 

Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 04:39:14 GMT

Seb <castongs@videotron.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm really tired of spam, have you any good suggestion to delete
> directly on a pop3 server ?
>
> Since, yesterday i received an incredible quantity of spam, so i want to
> delete it.
>
> Current Machine :
>
> FreeBSD 5.1
> Kde 3.1
>
> thx for your suggestion.
>
> Seb
>

I have a FreeBSD 4.8 mailserver and I use Mac OS X with Microsoft Entourage
on my client workstation. On the FreeBSD mailserver I've installed
procmail and spamassasin which work quite well,

        /usr/ports/mail/procmail and /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin

After installing these, for each user on the mailserver that wishes to use
it you creat a .procmailrc and a .forward in that users HOME directory.
Here are mine:

        $HOME/.procmailrc:

                :0fw: spamassassin.lock
                | /usr/local/bin/spamassassin

        $HOME/.forward:

                "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #jjr"

Thats it on the FreeBSD side, NOTE my userid is 'jjr'. Now all my incoming mail
is automatically fed to SpamAssassin and it injects special email headers
when its algorithm has detected Spam. The header I key on is:

        X-Spam-Flag: YES

Now, I've built a rule into my email client Entourage. If it sees the
mail header "X-Spam-Flag:" and it contains the value "YES", then the
email is automatically dumped into the Deleted Items folder. I do
a quick check of the Deleted items before closing Entourage as I've
configured it to empty out the Deleted items folder when I exit.

regards 

-- 
John J. Rushford
j j r { a t } a l i s a { d o t } o r g 
http://www.cs.du.edu/~jjr

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