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Re: Another Newbie Question.

2003-03-14 06:22:53
On 13 Mar 2003 Professional Software Engineering wrote:

Is there a way that I organize the spam detection in the BODY of the
message to fgrep certain words that I was told to filter out?

'man procmail'

then, hit:

         /the body


Or even better type

 man procmailrc
             ^^
             Note

and then type

 /body
 n
 n
 n

to get to the 4th occurence of 'body' and the part where
'variablename ??' is discussed. This is especially useful if you
are using Procmail 3.22, which has a bug related to this. The bug
and the workaround is discussed here:

 <http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/pipermail/procmail/2002-February/008355.html>

And I discuss this in the 'Anatomy of a Recipe' section of my
Quick Start, which is here:

 <http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/#anatomy


BTW, pursuant to an exchange which you had with someone else here, if
spending the time to learn procmail, or manage the scripts becomes too much
of a bother, you might consider just using one of the managed spam
filtering packages such as SpamAssassin.

I agree with Sean. For most people it does not make sense to
create and maintain your own spam-detection recipes. Instead use
one of the open-source tools that hundreds (or thousands!) of
people are using and maintaining. I use SpamAssassin and
recommend it, but I'm keeping my eyes on POPFile and will
probably switch to that once they have a Unix daemon.

Hope this helps,
Nancy

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