[TriLUG] Had it with worm

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 16:50, Mike Mueller wrote:
> I am thinking about retiring my email account that's getting all the worm 
> crap.  There's no slowing it.  Anybody else considering such a move?  I'm not 
> in the procmail/fetchmail/getmail crowd (yet) so I can't purge based on size 
> at the ISP's buffer or filter on incoming.  

I would recommend you use fetchmail to bring the mail to your local
workstation, and then run spamassassin to filter out all the spams and
worm stuff.  It's not that difficult to set up -- LOTS of howto's out
there -- and it's so relieving to have almost all of your email be worm-
and spam-free.

--Jeremy

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