From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 5:40:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boris.netgate.net (boris2.netgate.net [204.145.147.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ECC614BD7 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 05:40:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Received: from localhost (wellsian@localhost) by boris.netgate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA88331; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 05:39:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 05:39:07 -0800 (PST) From: wellsian X-Sender: wellsian@boris.netgate.net To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filtering spam by name of the sender? In-Reply-To: <20000128130727.A14150@moon.mteege.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Big topic. Do you mean at the system level, with sendmail, postfix, qmail, etc., or at the user level? If you want system-wide control then it's best to check out the anti-spam abilities of your mail system. Procmail works great, but it's more of a user-level utility; by the time it gets to look at the message your system has already received it. This is fine for last-ditch trashing (and user-configurable behavior) but it's good to have something to protect you earlier in the chain. If you use sendmail then check out the documented anti-spam features here: http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti-spam.html Most alternative mail systems have similar abilities. Check postfix's here: http://postfix.affinity.net/uce.html Postfix is a powerful but much simpler-to-configure alternative to SendMail. (Beware the port; it's moldy. The latest version from www.postfix.org supports FBSD nicely.) Good luck, -Dave On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Matthias Teege wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 09:49:00AM +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is it possible to filter the spam mails by name > > of the sender? > > I use procmail. > Matthias To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message