From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 13 23:03:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA20778 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 23:03:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20769 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 23:03:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul2.u.washington.edu (root@saul2.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.21]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA53756 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 23:03:19 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA08687 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 23:03:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 23:03:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Accidentally Discovered Spam Stopper Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I found a cool way to minimize the annoyance that spam causes and it requires minimal leg work. I haven't had spam in any of my "good" mailboxes for a long time and it is purely by accident. My procmail recipes filter all of my mail to my ~/mail/Inbox' mailbox (and a few other places) with a ^TO jcwells@u\.washington\.edu. Any remaining mail that doesn't get filtered and goes to '/var/mail'. Amazingly enough all of my spam is getting left behind in my '/var/mail' mailbox because spammers always send mail to "Undisclosed Recipients" which never matches jcwells@u.washington.edu. Yes I suppose it is possible to have good mail not get put in the proper box this way but it hasn't happened to me yet. Yeah it is simple and stupid but it makes me happy that my foul up is actually useful. If it's not a bug it's a feature, right? Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message