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Re: [fetchmail]Spam filters

2003-12-12 05:05:13

Hi Hal...

Thanks for your comments and thoughts. I guess what you are saying is that
a simple 'filter' to delete unwanted mail is all I should consider. But I
was thinking of what my Sendmail application was doing for me when Iwas my
own Postmaster.  It would refuse certain mail that i had set up inside
Sendmail such that I never saw it.  It simply refused to accept it from my
provider.  That is what I was hoping to do with fetchmail/procmail etc..

Still trying to learn this new(er) process to me,  so bear with my while I
struggle over here in the corner.

But thanks again for your input as it will surely keep me on the right
track.




On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Hal DeVore wrote:




On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, "Ted" == Ted Gervais wrote:

  Ted> where unwanted mail will be returned to the sender, or at
  Ted> least sent back to where it came from.  I don't want to
  Ted> have to just delete it here on my system but rather I want
  Ted> it to go back to the people that sent it to me and failing
  Ted> that, at least have it go back to my provider.

That's a really bad idea.   Very little spam has valid sender
addresses and if the sender IS valid it's probably some other
random address from the spammer's database.

All you're going to accomplish is to add more useless traffic
plus generate delivery failure notices back to yourself.

--Hal



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