From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 18:19:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FED937BD65 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 18:19:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt6-216-180-4-1.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.4.1]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e4U1JdG32264; Mon, 29 May 2000 20:19:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA45592; Mon, 29 May 2000 20:19:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200005300119.UAA45592@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "James A Wilde" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: Slightly offtopic - antispam file In-Reply-To: Message from "James A Wilde" of "Mon, 29 May 2000 09:34:08 +0200." <000201bfc940$464414a0$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 20:19:37 -0500 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "James A Wilde" writes: > I'm having a problem with UCE from everybody_and_his_brother@earthlink.net > which my ISP is unwilling to filter away. > > They use unix mail servers. Is there some file I can put in my mail > directory which will forward all mail from *@earthlink.net to /dev/null? > I'm thinking of something similar to the .forward file, but which only > forwards mail from a certain address. My ISP has installed the Brightmail filter locally. It catches quite a bit of spam. Lacking that aparently as a marketing ploy they will filter an individual's email for free: http://www.brightmail.com/individual/ Haven't tried the above but suspect they pop your mail from you ISP while at the same time you are pop'ing from them. Meaning Brightmail has to have the password to your ISP account. Further checking their FAQ suggests they don't do APOP yet, so the password traverses the net in the clear. One nice feature of Brightmail is they don't discard suspected spam. You can check on caught spam at a website. Interesting the only thing they wrongly caught was an announcement from Jordan K. Hubbard. :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message