From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 15 13:54:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06809 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:54:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orcrist.mediacity.com (orcrist.mediacity.com [208.138.36.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06804 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:54:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter@orcrist.mediacity.com) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by orcrist.mediacity.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29994; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:55:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter) Message-ID: <19981115135520.W28420@orcrist.mediacity.com> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:55:20 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter To: "Jason C. Wells" , FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Accidentally Discovered Spam Stopper References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Jason C. Wells on Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 11:03:01PM -0800 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 11:03:01PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > 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'. If you're already using procmail and want a spam stopper, you might try . s' pretty good; it catches 95% of my spam. Course, I wrote it, so it's probably a little better for me than it is for others. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Bureaucrats cut red tape -- lengthwise. mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message