At 10:54 2001-12-19 -0500, High Flight did say:
I'm new to procmail, and I'm not that technically astute. In other
examples I've seen there was never a space, so I wanted to ask just to
make sure.
Space isn't needed if the expression starts with '.*', which will match
whatever, including space. If you're using it to filter out spam, by
excluding the hard space from the expression, you might catch yourself a
forged Received: header here and there (headers which were added to the
message by the spammer, not an SMTP agent).
I don't understand your reaction. For now, redirecting mail from those
countries redirects about half of my spam, and about 5% of legitimate
mail.
When you have to rummage through a junk folder to read valid email on a
regular basis, the spam filtering isn't doing you much of a service.
I perhaps have to dive into my spam folders once or twice a month, usually
to dig out a message which was caught because it was identified as forged
(showing as From: some webmail provider, but not actually having relayed
through their servers).
You might find some success by using an RBL or two.
---
Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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