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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:42:48 -0500
From:      John Stalker <stalker@Math.Princeton.EDU>
To:        Dave <mudman@R181172.resnet.ucsb.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail ; bogus letters 
Message-ID:  <200202142142.g1ELgmF07423@fine1008.math.princeton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0202140740060.52689-100000@R181172.resnet.ucsb.edu> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.44.0202140740060.52689-100000@R181172.resnet.ucsb.edu>

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procmail is what you want.  see
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/01/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html
for details.

> 
> Some of my accounts are getting some spam (what else is new on the
> internet?).  However, the "from" addresses of these letters are not even
> valid (as is with a lot of spam).  In a couple of cases they are, but I
> question the letter actually came from the sender listed.
> 
> Is there something I can do in the sendmail.cf file or other configuration
> change to drop these kinds of letters?  Other solutions?
> 
> I've thought of denying messages from free mail sites, but I imagine some
> spam is from elsewhere.  I would think it is possible to ditch bulkmail, I
> know that yahoo.com has a bulkmail folder -- and I heard yahoo runs
> FreeBSD too :)  How are the letters discriminated from eachother as a bulk
> versus a possible real one?
> 
> 
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John Stalker
Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
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