On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 17:06, Paul Mackinney wrote: > I've been reading the various spam threads, I'm certainly > getting my share of hits from the various worms going > around. Clearly I can do better can people provide some > clear recommendations? > > Currently I'm using exim, receiving w/fetchmail and > sending to smarthost. I've learned how to write and > test an exim-compatible .forward file that works > fairly well, although I keep having to add more rules > as the attributions for the fake MS updates keep changing > (really I have to go back to the docs and see if I can > filter out any message with a *.exe or *.pif attachment.) > > So one question is: does procmail really work better or > provide more features than .forward? Is it worth > investing the time and energy to learn how to write > procmail filters? > > A second question is: I understand that if you install > and configure the mailfilter package, that you can use > mutt to initiate your pop connections and filter mail > at the server. I have broadband, do I really care about > this option? I'd always understood that having mutt > run your pop connections was basically an option for > people running PPP. > > Finally: I'm poised to start running a 24x7 server for > the first time, I'm contemplating making it a true > mailserver for incoming and outgoing. I'm sure I'll be > learning all about spamassassin, do people have any > advice about gotchas, must-have packages, or best > books? apt-get install ( courier-maildrop | maildrop ) maildrop works and it's rules are much easier to write and understand. SpamAssassin just works. (remember in Debian the customization is /etc/spamassassin) any change you want to make in /usr/share/spamassassin/*.cf can be put in /etc/spamassassin/local.cf (of any other name .cf) -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry The perils of your eyelashes torture my libido into a state of crass belief in Roman Catholicism.
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