From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 3 02:51:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF4E5106566B for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 02:51:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.239]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D5E8FC19 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 02:51:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so6256771wxd.7 for ; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:51:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=1d8jBHxAvpoFaMmDjXJCkrHCD4p/8G3KacQBX8BSLC8=; b=qCzTdsOJQvl+X3VlW5gBmVhPPGM5/XSWvNFArEtd+VDytwDY3dENhbeyFTDa7Px77YxVPnJlYn+Uh4At6uT7JFJ5Ox/fBlvrNqPd3RLQs98sIKTbXabyD6Zc334OYB+XEm+1MOMRFIfFgZ34dezNpv3Xydoya+PLUxd7R+pd8lQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=E1QeQP1OueXx/GvzkHyzcoOr9N1SYLlRbevEBnd/nbAVhTRVpYJdCl3I3a270nFVvwbQgU/cEzsSLjd0IT+fG53mx7q9r6RF6GycaolpY6Fq5K5Jh/JMM+18oeBF2U2hvvhdVmy8YdZBCrWviDUYcs6Uejep/exEOoLP9XJStNY= Received: by 10.70.69.1 with SMTP id r1mr11620734wxa.54.1204512710700; Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:51:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.2? ( [24.229.62.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h38sm12549840wxd.15.2008.03.02.18.51.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:51:50 -0800 (PST) From: Glen Barber Organization: http://www.dev-urandom.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 21:51:48 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <000001c87cd6$97059470$6500a8c0@Ming> In-Reply-To: <000001c87cd6$97059470$6500a8c0@Ming> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803022151.48856.glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Spam mails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:51:51 -0000 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