Date: 04 Feb 2003 10:20:41 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nuking unwanted mail via fetchmail and sendmail Message-ID: <44wukghy2e.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0302031458170.15984-100000@shell.core.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0302031458170.15984-100000@shell.core.com>
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Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com> writes: > HI all. Looking for a simple way to nuke unwanted incoming email. > Let me explain further. What I'm having trouble with is I keep getting > virus infected emails from a "big@boss.com" coming into my email. That > makes for a total pain for me when I try to download it because Norton > kills the mail transfer as soon as it sees the virus thus causing me to > have to login, nuke the infected mail, logout, then download my mail like > normal. > > What I'm currently using is Fetchmail in combination with Sendmail > 8.12 on my system. Fetchmail goes out and grabs the mail off of my 3 > primary email accounts, then dumps them into my user account on my box. > What I'd like to do is to have sendmail or fetchmail (either one is fine) > immediately nuke any mail that comes in from these addresses or domains so > that I never have to see it. > > Anyone know how to do this? The simpler the solution, the better. If it's actually the envelope "from" that you're keying on, you can do that pretty simply with the sendmail 'access' file. That approach doesn't scale particularly well, though, so if you're going to want to continue tuning anti-spam measures, jumping into spamassassin or some other full-fledged solution is worthwhile. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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