Procmail recipies

[Joe]

That's what I thought.  Mozilla spam detection works fairly well (and 
it's much better in 1.5 than in previous versions).

Joe

Robert Meyer wrote:

>Spamassassin works through your MTA/MDA (e.g. sendmail and procmail),
>typically.  Normally, sendmail invokes spamassassin which tags suspected spam. 
>The mail is then fed to procmail which reads the headers generated by
>spamassassin and stuffs them into folders based on spam score.
>
>I suppose that you could potentially do this yourself but if you have mozilla
>mail, it has antispam functionality built in.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Bob
>--- Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>  
>
>>Could you post a few sentences about how this works?  In particular, I 
>>just do email through my ISP and do not have anything except Mozilla 
>>Messenger set up.  Can it work with something like that, or does it need 
>>some other server processes to be running?
>>
>>Joe
>>
>>Robert Meyer wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Guys, rather than trying to do all of the parsing and mangling yourself, why
>>>not just install spamassassin?  It uses procmail to put suspected spam in
>>>separate folders that you can tag and delete in one whack.
>>>
>>>Cheers!
>>>
>>>Bob
>>>--- michael.phillips at michaelphillipsnet.com wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Quoting hawkwynd <hawkwynd at adelphia.net>:
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>1. Filtering incoherently written bodies. Sometimes you get a spam from
>>>>>somewhere that has garbled words in no apparent meaning or order. How can
>>>>>I filter for that?
>>>>>     
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>I was recieveing e-mail like that.  I went and look at the e-mail's headers
>>>>and
>>>>found a common link to all of them.  This is the recipe that I came up
>>>>        
>>>>
>>with:
>>    
>>
>>>>:0:
>>>>* ^Content-type: text/html; charset=(euc-kr|ks_c_5601-1987)
>>>>trash
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>2. I'd like to create a blacklist of domains where I want to be able to
>>>>>read from a file, and filter from the list in the file. I saw a recipe out
>>>>>there once, lost it when I re-formatted, and didn't back it up (Doh!)
>>>>>     
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>You will need to find an external program to procmail recipes.
>>>>
>>>>Michael
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
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