Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 21:51:48 -0500 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spam mails Message-ID: <200803022151.48856.glen.j.barber@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <000001c87cd6$97059470$6500a8c0@Ming> References: <000001c87cd6$97059470$6500a8c0@Ming>
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On Sunday 02 March 2008 09:30:47 pm Ming Tang wrote: > Hi - > > My email server is on FreeBSD 5.4 Release. I got a lot spam mails every day > and it is really a headache to clean these mails in my pop mail client > software daily. > > Is there any effective way to reduce and block these spam emails? Please > help to provide me hint or direction. > Although I'm not certain of your exact setup, I use procmail to filter out the 'spam' mail. Well.. In reality, I use it in a reverse fashion. I filter all mail to my 'trash' folder, then using procmail, filter all 'good' mail out (ie, mailing lists, school email, personal contacts, etc). Hope this helps. -- Glen Barber
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