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Date:      Sun, 2 Mar 2008 21:51:48 -0500
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Spam mails
Message-ID:  <200803022151.48856.glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <000001c87cd6$97059470$6500a8c0@Ming>
References:  <000001c87cd6$97059470$6500a8c0@Ming>

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On Sunday 02 March 2008 09:30:47 pm Ming Tang wrote:
> Hi -
>
> My email server is on FreeBSD 5.4 Release. I got a lot spam mails every day
> and it is really a headache to clean these mails in my pop mail client
> software daily.
>
> Is there any effective way to reduce and block these spam emails? Please
> help to provide me hint or direction.
>
Although I'm not certain of your exact setup, I use procmail to filter out 
the 'spam' mail.  Well.. In reality, I use it in a reverse fashion.  

I filter all mail to my 'trash' folder, then using procmail, filter all 'good' 
mail out (ie, mailing lists, school email, personal contacts, etc).

Hope this helps.
-- 
Glen Barber



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