[Gllug] Procmail

will will at hellacool.co.uk
Mon Feb 25 22:39:19 UTC 2002


Stig Brautaset wrote:
> * Jackson, Harry <HJackson at colt-telecom.com> spake thus:
> 
>>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. 
>>
> 
> Harry, if it was simple to weed out spam, everybody would do it ;)

You might give spamcop.net a go, it does just about all the work of 
finding out the providers that transported the spam and sending them 
emails telling them they have done it.

Will.


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