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From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
To: wellsian <wellsian@caffeine.com>,
	Matthias Teege <matthias@mteege.de>
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Subject: Re: filtering spam by name of the sender?
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I want system level protection
I use procmail as local delivery program already.
How can I configure it? I think it is reaing a global
configuration file at usr/local/etc/procmailrc
is not it so?

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, wellsian wrote:

> 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
> 




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