|Fri 98-02-27 "Matthew G. Saroff (Reply to the pobox address)"
<matthew(_dot_)saroff(_at_)lmco(_dot_)com> list.procmail
|
| I'm using a justoposition of some of my own filters, and Spam Bouncer
| Lite. I've heard people recommend other filters too. I have some questions:
| * What publically available spam filter out there do you recommend? Do
| you use it? What makes it nice?
I think think this is highly personal. What works for you may work for
someone else better. Somebody wants to maintain list of suspectible
domain, others don't want to carry extra config files around.
Some filters offer lot of extensibily, other are just plug-ins and not
much to configure.
I really can't advice you here. (My own plug-in filter gives pretty good
success rate, I'm sure other feel same way for theirs.)
| * Is there a filter out there that distinguishes between spamming domains
| (CyberPromo, etc.) and sites from which spam commonly comes (Hotmail, Juno,
| AGIS) and might allow for an autoresponse to the latter.
Haven't heard. My personal advice for complining is: Send the message to
all poostmaster along the Received headers and ask them to add some
blocking mechanism. That has worked far better than complaining to Juno
only 8. Why would we want to block the source only, when we can ask
admins to block the whole chain....
| * I've been cutting and pasting to include Spam Bouncer. What is the
| proper syntax for using an includerc. Does this mean that the recipes execute
| where they were inserted, at the beginning of the sequence, or the end?
Sorry? If the includerc is well contructed, it will staate at the beginning
how it should installed, configured and used. The traditional way is:
XX_VAR = ... # Configure the plug-in
XX_MORE_VAR = -.. # More config vars
INCLUDERC = # And use it now!
You _don't_ touch the INCLUDERC files themself. If there is something to
change, contact the author and explain what improvements it needs.
you don't want to touch the INCLUDRC directly because when new version
comes out, you can just drop the new version in place.
So, puty your own customisation out of distributed includrc files.
I maintain list of includerc's and spam filters in procmail tips
page. Let me know if someone has more of them.
ftp://cs.uta.fi/pub/ssjaaa/pm-tips.html#procmail_module_list
Text version of the docuemnt is available from file Server.
(See X-info header).
Cheers!
jari