[Gllug] Procmail

[Jackson, Harry]

Hi all.

How can I do the following in procmail. 

I have all my mail from work forwarded to my internet mail address but
because it goes through outlook it seems to strip some of the headers. I
receive the odd spam which automatically gets posted to my yahoo address and
when I use fetchmail it comes down and procmail does not recognise it as
such. I have tried to write it so that anything from paid4survey and a
couple of others gets ditched but this string seems to get stripped from the
headers when it comes via outlook. Is the only alternative to use scoring to
weed this sort of crap from my mail box and does anyone have any decent
scoring examples or good or configurable recipes that a SIMPLE MAN could
FOLLOW. 

I have also read some stuff about returns to sender to stipulate that the
email address is not valid or that the mail was recognised as bulk mail. I
would like to send the proper reply back but how can you be sure you are not
confirming to the spammer and not the ISP that you exist and therefore
receive more Spam. Are there methods that ensure that the mail gets to the
correct person or the ISP for the spammer.

Everytime I check up on a spammer I get to where I think that their email
has originated which is rarely what is in the from box and find all sorts of
promises that this provider does not support Spam etc etc. I have written to
the provider of paid4survey.com and I am still receiving the crap and do not
receive any reply automated or otherwise from these people. Am I being naive
in thinking that most ISP's care about Spam. I would have thought that at
the price of bandwidth that Spam would be considered a black plague on the
net much the same as virus's, crackers etc etc.

Regards;
Harry Jackson.


     


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