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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