On Friday 14 December 2001 02:55, naurgrim wrote:
On Thursday 13 December 2001 19:35, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Why don't you just filter him out? That's easy and gets him off your back altogether. Now, if someone could tell me how to filter mail "from" asdfklu with subject inmbles; I would love to know how. Oh, it has to work in Lotus Notes. That's what we're using at work. These are all porno guys trying to sell their wares. I'm not in IT, so I can't do anything at the source, I'm just a poor dumb user (with no understanding of Lotus) trying to get rid of the junk. (I must have 30 "rules" by now to get rid of the spammers.)
Sorry Doug -
I don't know Notes.
However, if it can filter on body text, how's about dumping everything that contains:
to be removed to be permanently removed to get removed S.1618 S. 1618
That should get at least 60% of it. <g>
Has anyone else tried Spamassassin (http://spamassassin.taint.org/) ? It's a set of configurable Perl stuff that sifts through your incoming mail spool, runs a set of pattern-matching tests on it, and flags the spam (it adds X-Spam-Flag headers, modifies the subject and adds a spam warning in the body). I download mail straight from my ISP via POP, through a Kmail filter that pattern-matches the regexp . in the headers, pipes it through spamassassin ('spamassassin -p') - note, uncheck the 'if match hit, stop processing here!' bit!
From there, it goes to a second filter that looks for spamassassin-generated flags, and diverts such into a spam folder. Of course, you could equally well shred those mails unread; I'm still tuning mine, and don't want to shred accidental false positives.
You can edit spamassassin's tolerance for potential false positives, and exempt addresses from checking by editing /$HOME/.spamassassin.prefs. A properly-tuned spamassassin can apparently identify 99.9% of spam on sight. The only downside is that it does slow down mail reception a bit, due to checking Vipul's Razor (http://razor.sourceforge.net/) for each message; but you can turn that off, too. (It's very cool, I have to say; and thanks to my friend Colm for helping me work it out.) For me, spam *is* a thing of the past. Gideon.