🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 06 Dec 1997 07:46:15 +0000, "A.M. Basman"
<amb26@ponder.demon.co.uk> in <348902C7.6990@ponder.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

>OK, I'm here. Terrance Boyes mentioned that someone has a version of
>getmail that can killfile on envelope? Any takers?

Yep.

I've wrote a small C program to do the regexing (my ReXX is rather
piss-poor) and hacked getmail.cmd to call it.  It's pretty ugly, but
it can kill any incoming mail based on the MAIL FROM: line.

I use it quite successfully to slap all incoming mail from brainless
spam engines (ie, 12345678@14452.com) as well as the bigger
spamhouses, and it does have the (very) slight advantage of generating
a proper bounce before without you having to download a thing.

If you're still interested, I'll zip it and add a few lines of
explanatory text for the filter file format and send it to you.

But it can't deal with the majority of spam I get at the moment, which
hijacks legit domain's names to foil filtering like this, but that
will be a job for my java spam filtering system (which is currently
highly embryonic so don't even ask :).
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