Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 17:09:23 +0200 (EET) From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> To: wellsian <wellsian@caffeine.com>, Matthias Teege <matthias@mteege.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: filtering spam by name of the sender? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001281706050.15201-100000@finland.ispro.net.tr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001280516400.77912-100000@boris.netgate.net>
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I want system level protection I use procmail as local delivery program already. How can I configure it? I think it is reaing a global configuration file at usr/local/etc/procmailrc is not it so? On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, wellsian wrote: > Big topic. Do you mean at the system level, with sendmail, postfix, qmail, > etc., or at the user level? If you want system-wide control then it's best > to check out the anti-spam abilities of your mail system. Procmail works > great, but it's more of a user-level utility; by the time it gets to look > at the message your system has already received it. This is fine for > last-ditch trashing (and user-configurable behavior) but it's good to have > something to protect you earlier in the chain. > > If you use sendmail then check out the documented anti-spam > features here: > > http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti-spam.html > > Most alternative mail systems have similar abilities. Check postfix's > here: > > http://postfix.affinity.net/uce.html > > Postfix is a powerful but much simpler-to-configure alternative to > SendMail. (Beware the port; it's moldy. The latest version from > www.postfix.org supports FBSD nicely.) > > Good luck, > -Dave > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Matthias Teege wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 09:49:00AM +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Is it possible to filter the spam mails by name > > > of the sender? > > > > I use procmail. > > Matthias > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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