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Shakib Otaqui <shakib@alquds.demon.co.uk> wrote:

     [mailkill]

>    Any ideas on the best way to implement it?  Seeing the many
>    variations in the spam I've received in the past I've used, for
>    example, "*emailsrus.com*" (without the quotes).
>
>    Would this be better as just "*emailsrus*" and does one have to
>    worry about case sensitivity and also have "*EMAILSRUS*"?

Depends whether anyone is likely to ever legitimately mail you with an 
address that matches *emailsrus*.  KA9Q lowercases the address as part 
of the SMTP command processing before it's compared to the mailkill 
file so your mailkill entry should be entirely lower case.

>    Does anyone have any idea as to the point when the mailkill file
>    gets big enough to seriously affect performance?

It's obviously related to the number of lines but beyond that really
depends on the complexity of the wildcard patterns involved and the
incoming address to match.

>    Finally, does ka9q keep a record of bounced mail anywhere?  I've
>    looked through mail.log and found nothing there.

Mail that's bounced when KA9Q doesn't accept the username isn't logged 
anywhere.  In certain circumstances such bounces can be deleted 
without trace.  Mail that's rejected by mailkill should be logged with 
a 'rejected: from:' entry in mail.log

Cheers, Graham.
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