🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <58br1d$uvi$1@ns2.iacom.net.au>,
	tom@israfil.iacom.com.au (Tom Minchin) writes:
> pariah@creole.iinet.net.au (Michael Malone) writes:
> 
>>David Bromage (dbromage@metz.une.edu.au) wrote:
>>: [ spam email from Data line ]
>>: Email: info@dataline.net.au 
>>: Tel: 1800 357 799
>>: Fax: 07-3357-4291 or http://dataline.net.au/modems
> 
> Additionally, add this to your individual (or mail server global -
> /etc/procmailrc) procmailrc:
> 
> --
>:0:
> * ^TOdataline.net.au
> /dev/null
> 
>:0:
> * ^From:.*dataline.net.au
> /dev/null
> --
> 
> Now you won't see junk mail from dataline.net.au. Their purchase of your
> email address now in vain.
> 
> tom@iacom.com.au

Hello,
I have been working with Eric Raymond who wrote "fetchmail" an IMAP
and POP client for UNIX workstations.  I've been doing some testing
of fetchmail for him recently...

Since I don't have a permanent IP connection, I need a POP client to get
my mail.

Eric wrote a hack into his app at my suggestion that deletes SPAM mail as
soon as sendmail replies with a "571" error message, based on the sendmail
check_mail rules during the SMTP transaction.  

It's only a passive way of dealing with SPAM, but at least I can say 
that I have something in place to cut the rubbish down...

While testing his patches I tried getting sendmail to send a reply back,
but this is only possible with further processing, which would require
the message to be downloaded.  I think I would rather not waste the CPU
and IO on a message I would not see...

I looked at using ETRN, which would send the appropriate error message but
I doubt I would be permitted to run my own queue to use on the mail server
I pop my mail off!

Fetchmail 2.2 will be out any day now, and will have the Anti-SPAM
feature.

http://locke.ccil.org:80/~esr/esr-freeware.html#fetchmail

Works great!

rachel

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Rachel Polanskis                 Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia 
grove@zeta.org.au                http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html
r.polanskis@nepean.uws.edu.au    http://www.nepean.uws.edu.au/ccd/
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