From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 10 10:11:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D416B16A41F for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:11:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdow@earthlink.net) Received: from smtpauth01.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth01.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC8C43D45 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:11:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdow@earthlink.net) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=eeij2FfCvnf0eOwm0oJ3TDF1cmSJtjR4lpEkDb9cUGnvfoN1pMfTD/oFukJmstIp; h=Received:Message-ID:From:To:References:Subject:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Priority:X-MSMail-Priority:X-Mailer:X-MimeOLE:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [71.116.149.244] (helo=kittycat) by smtpauth01.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EwGTq-00040w-8X for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:11:54 -0500 Message-ID: <04a601c615ce$4dc4d7b0$1225a8c0@kittycat> From: "jdow" To: References: Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:12:03 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 X-ELNK-Trace: bb89ecdb26a8f9f24d2b10475b571120d946e384bfc0e9a4bc182732116fb413d77640a2ff395bdd350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 71.116.149.244 Subject: Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why 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: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:11:56 -0000 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" >>-----Original Message----- >>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >>Spam I sort through. With SpamAssassin scoring it's easy to find >>the low scores and concentrate on them. But somebody arrogant enough >>to spam me with a challenge for a message to a mailing list ends >>up on my procmail /dev/null rules. (I use fetchmail to grab mail >>and procmail to feed it to /var/spool/mail/ with stops along >>the way for SpamAssassin, ClamAv, and some random cleverness.) >> > > Unfortunately, jdow, since your using this setup, the spammer has > already successfully delivered the mail to you. The fact that you > delete the spam before reading makes no difference - the spammer > doesen't know that and thinks they have successfully delivered it. No they have not. They've managed to get it onto my machine, transiently. It never got delivered to ME, the organic unit here at this email address. I do vet spam. The items redirected to /dev/null are items I do not want to bother with while vetting real spam. > Denying the spam before it's even accepted into the server is a > much better way. Unfortunately, a content filter means you have to If you can make fetchmail do that you're pretty clever, kemo sabe. {^_^}