permaculture

[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

For spam mail catching I'm using SpamAssassin
http://spamassassin.org/. Its catching about 30-40 spams
a day. Getting about one false positive a week but
letting through about 5 spams a day.

I use it on a linux account which filters the mail
before I need to download it to my home computer
through a dial up connection. Hence its saving me a lot
of time downloading spam messages.

I'm also using procmail to do a few other things.
        1) Catch big messages > 50K
        and saves them on in a folder
        on my linux account. Many of these are
        virus. A notification of the arrival of big
        messages is sent to my home computer.
        2) autoreply to the first message I receive
        from a person.
        3) Deletes audio/x-wav and audio/x-midi messages
        (often viruses)
        4) Implement a white list of people I know.
        5) Implement a black list of persistent spammers.

        Rich

p.s. out of interest how many spams are others on the
list receiving?
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