Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:42:48 -0500 From: John Stalker <stalker@Math.Princeton.EDU> To: Dave <mudman@R181172.resnet.ucsb.edu> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail ; bogus letters Message-ID: <200202142142.g1ELgmF07423@fine1008.math.princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0202140740060.52689-100000@R181172.resnet.ucsb.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0202140740060.52689-100000@R181172.resnet.ucsb.edu>
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procmail is what you want. see http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/01/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html for details. > > Some of my accounts are getting some spam (what else is new on the > internet?). However, the "from" addresses of these letters are not even > valid (as is with a lot of spam). In a couple of cases they are, but I > question the letter actually came from the sender listed. > > Is there something I can do in the sendmail.cf file or other configuration > change to drop these kinds of letters? Other solutions? > > I've thought of denying messages from free mail sites, but I imagine some > spam is from elsewhere. I would think it is possible to ditch bulkmail, I > know that yahoo.com has a bulkmail folder -- and I heard yahoo runs > FreeBSD too :) How are the letters discriminated from eachother as a bulk > versus a possible real one? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- John Stalker Department of Mathematics Princeton University (609)258-6469 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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