procmail
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Block Hotmail earthlink

2000-01-03 05:10:10
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:46:49 -0600, "Greg Waits"
<gtinternet(_at_)gtinternet(_dot_)com> wrote:
how do you block email from hotmail with Spam Bouncer?

Create a file containing the names of the domains you want to block,
and set the FREEMAIL variable to point to this file.

FREEMAIL=INTERNAL will apparently block the following domains:

                       angelfire.com
                       bigfoot.com
                       geocities.com
                       hempseed.com
                       mailcity.com
                       rocketmail.com
                       usa.net
                       yahoo.com

If you want to receive mail from individual people in the affected
domains, add them to the NOBOUNCE file, which, if it exists, needs to
be named in the NOBOUNCE variable in a similar way.

For example, create the directory $HOME/procmail and create the files
sb-freemail.txt and sb-nobounce.txt in this directory.

sb-freemail.txt should contain the following:

angelfire.com
bigfoot.com
geocities.com
hempseed.com
hotmail.com
mailcity.com
rocketmail.com
usa.net
yahoo.com

sb-nobounce.txt should contain the following:

bogus(_at_)nothing-here-yet(_dot_)no

In your Spam Bouncer configuration, add the following statements
(override any previous settings of these variables, perhaps by
commenting them out so you can see what they were set to by default);

    FREEMAIL=$HOME/procmail/sb-freemail.txt
    NOBOUNCE=$HOME/procmail/sb-nobounce.txt

Note that you can't use ~ to refer to your home directory when setting
the names of these files.

How do you react to the statement that it took somebody who does not
use Spam Bouncer about five minutes to find the documentation, locate
the appropriate paragraph, and read, interpret, and paraphrase it for
you?

  [ ] Amusing
  [ ] Depressing
  [ ] All of the above
  [ ] None of the above

Please check only one box.

BTW, the docs are at <http://www.hrweb.org/spambouncer/>

Hope this helps, and happy new year with Procmail.

/* era */

-- 
 Too much to say to fit into this .signature anyway: <http://www.iki.fi/era/>
  Fight spam in Europe: <http://www.euro.cauce.org/> * Sign the EU petition

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>