Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:54, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (25/10/03 01:14), David Jardine wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:55:20PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:39:11AM -0700, John Yurcik (jyyc73@yahoo.com) wrote:
[snip]
> > I've read the fetchmail documentation and concluded that fetchmail
> > will never delete anything without consulting exim or whatever.
> > I've tried to follow all the contributions to this list on the
> > subject. Have I missed something?
> Only if you have a pop3 account, in which case you can preconnect mailfilter
> before fetchmail to remove most of this stuff from the server before
> collecting your mail.
>
> see various .mailfilterrc files post in the last few weeks. Some
> filter on size. I use a combination of Subject, From and To headers to
> filter most of it out. Let me know if you want my rc file.
The problem with mailfilter, regarding swen, is that mailfilter only
loots at the header, and the swen signature is in the body of the
mail, where mailfilter can't see it.
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Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net
Jefferson, LA USA
When Swedes start committing terrorism, I'll become suspicious of
Scandanavians.
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