From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 27 09:46:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA18368 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 09:46:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tok.qiv.com ([204.214.141.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA18363 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 09:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id LAA24604; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 11:45:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA00221; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 11:44:58 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: acp.qiv.com: jdn owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 11:44:58 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jay D. Nelson" To: "Thomas D. Dean" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Spam killing. (Was:Re: COME SEE THE HOTTEST..) In-Reply-To: <3363715E.156@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk See www.sendmail.org. They have information on spam. Procmail is your immediate answer and there is a collection of filters at sendmail.org, I believe. Unfortunately, with procmail, you've already wasted the bandwidth. I'm thinking of building some sendmail rules to can them on our mail exchanger. I'd also like some rules to confine outbound mail to our domain. If anyone has ideas, or has done this, please let me know. Thanks. -- Jay On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Thomas D. Dean wrote: ->This is somewhat off the subject, but, is impacting us. -> ->I see an increase of postings of "sex-vertisements" and other ->advertisements from various sources. The above "sex-vertisement" ->appeared on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce. I seem to be ->receiving an increasing amount of advertisement e-mail addressed to ->me. Sometimes, I receive 10 copies of the same message, daily. ->Most of these seem to come from @savetrees.com. -> ->Most of these mail messages originators seem to be able to hide their ->ID well enough that I cannot send a reply. -> ->I have tried replying to "webmaster@" and "root@in an attempt to get someone to stop this, but, many times, ->that mail is returned as undeliverable. -> ->Looking at the source of mail thru savetrees.com, there is a ->reply address, abuse@savetrees.com. I get an automated response from ->there. But, it may do some good to ping them? -> ->Is there any way to determine a proper address to reply to these ->unsolicited and sometimes offensive messages? ->