Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:28:48 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spam and this list Message-ID: <20011218182848.N5427@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <15391.31003.870000.963996@guru.mired.org> References: <15377.28895.750328.858863@guru.mired.org> <DJEFKJJHCIONPELDCGACCEJJCAAA.cjm2@earthling.net> <15390.48825.259191.409925@guru.mired.org> <20011218111341.C5427@roman.mobil.cz> <15391.31003.870000.963996@guru.mired.org>
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> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:12:59 -0600
> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>
> Cc: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Spam and this list
> From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1009127580.07c77a@mired.org>
>
> Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> types:
> > > C J Michaels <cjm2@earthling.net> types:
> > > > Have you ever taken a look at Spam Bouncer? It's a procmail script, that in
> > > > my opinion, handles spam very well. Very few (and I usually get a high
> > > > volume of spam) makes it's way into my INBOX.
> > > Yes, I have. I decided against it, because it has to high a
> > > probability of false positives (i.e. - non-zero). TMDA doesn't have
> > > that problem.
> > But TMDA is worthless if you send mail through a smarthost, and
> > fetch it with POP3. I. e. you must be your own mail server.
> > Or I got the docs wrong.
>
> You didn't get the docs wrong, you just overlooked some of the
> possibilities. You need to use fetchmail to fetch mail from the pop3
> server.
I use getmail, but whatever... I can't use TMDA in this scenario
since when the mail arrives at my PC, it's already past TMDAs
shooting range. And without access to the MTA, I'm out of luck
either way.
I just wanted to emphasize that while you may find TMDA the best
solution to filtering spam, there are situations where it's not
applicable, and then the "old fashioned" spam filters come in handy.
> If the mail server doesn't have the capability to send all mail to
> user<foo> (where foo starts with some seperator), then you can't use
> TMDA, because it uses cryptographically signed <foo>'s to tag
> acceptable mail.
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