From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 16:57:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3CE37B86B for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 16:57:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-226.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.226] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA25463; Tue, 30 May 2000 09:59:40 +1000 From: Danny To: "James A Wilde" , "james" Subject: RE: Slightly offtopic - antispam file Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:01:13 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <001301bfc946$18797550$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00053110051106.00328@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If your ISP is not letting you use procmail etc Get a new ISP If a hotmail user is spamming you with unwanted spam simply send a email to abuse@hotmail.com Always avoid using yourusername@yourisp.com in postings of news groups, mailing list and filling in your personal details on cgiforms etc etc. These are the places spammers get your email address from and spam you. There is a good book from O'Reilly that explains how you can combat this kind of problem On Mon, 29 May 2000, James A Wilde wrote: > Problem is, James, that I can't get at my ISP's sendmail.cf file. And > although I have configured my mail client (Outlook) to send everything from > earthlink.net to /dev/null, I have to tank it home before I can do that. :( > > Although I am in the process of moving from Windows NT both at work and at > home to Solaris at work and FreeBSD at home. I wonder whether, for example, > pine would throw it away _before_ downloading it? > > mvh/regards > > James > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message