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Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage



On (24/10/03 22:04), Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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.
Ah! That explains quite a lot but nevertheless, in the main a limited
number of words (or combinations of words) appear in the headers.  With 
some trial and error experimentation and contributions from  Pigeon, 
David Lloyd and others, my rc file now picks up most of it .

Thanks for the additional insight.

Regards

Clive
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