[TriLUG] spam filtering

[Jim Ray]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Reed [mailto:ranger at befunk.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 1:46 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] spam filtering
>
> TMDA is a mail sentry.  So if you e-mail me and I've never talked to
> you before, and you're not in my whitelist, and you're not on one of
> the mailing lists I'm on, it will ask for a confirmation that
> you're a
> human before allowing mail through.

badly needed these days the way folks sell names/addresses.

>
> I've put up a cleaned-up version of my scripts at
> http://ranger.befunk.com/misc/spam-filters.tar.bz2 if you
> want to take
> a look.  It will unpack a "procmail" directory, everything in there
> should go in your homedir eventually, but make sure you've got things
> backed up and such first.

i'm pretty green at this stuff and haven't yet got email going on linux.
i'm more at the got-rh9-going-but-that's-all level.  all good things in all
good time.

>
> I got real lucky in that I didn't mess anything up the first try, and
> it was a saturday morning so I wasn't getting much mail.
> Your mileage
> may vary.  =)

my mileage is very bad.  however, i have fun.