[CLUE-Tech] Netscape email filters/rules for SPAM

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:40:04 -0700
Mike Staver <staver at fimble.com> wrote:

> I'm also having major problems with spam, I get more now than I ever
> have before in my life, and it is driving me nuts.  Since I run my own
> mail server, I don't exactly know what I'm doing with blocking the
> spam.

Also, IIRC both Linux Journal/Magazine have had recent articles on using
procmail or Perl to set up mail filters. Maybe qmail as well.

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On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Kevin Cullis wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been inundated with SPAM these last few months and have stuggled
> with how to put them in my trash without taking the time to manually do
> it. I finally came up with some simple email filter: put a mail filter
> that says "sender" (or "to" or "from") "contains" ".com" or ".net" and
> it puts everything in the trash. I've also placed the rule at the end of
> my rule set so that ALL of my emails don't go in the trash. ;-)
>
> Anyone have any others ideas that might help?

I've been using Vipul's Razor, it's a distributed spam filtering program.
It's got a pretty high success rate.

It might be tricky to set up with Netscape if you pull mail off your
POP server with Netscape, but if you pull mail with fetchmail/procmail
it's very easy to set up. AFAIK procmail shouldn't have any problems
putting mail in Netscape mailboxes... I think they're in standard mbox
format. (Is that right? Been a while since I messed with it.)

You can find an article I wrote about Vipul's Razor at:
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1781/urm0112f/0112f.htm

Take care,

Zonker
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