A really fun programming project. Operation spamstopper!

[Karthik S S]

Hi SEP,

Did you try my script with HP-UX?? Because it worked for me :-(

-Kartihk S S

NP please

[Mark Grant]

SEP,

Solve the linux "echo" issue by using "echo -e"

[Steven E. Protter]

Mark,

Good one, got yourself a bunny.

Karthik, results were similar. I can't explain it. I'm guessing I'm running against the raw datafile and you're running aginist the output from my original grep command.

I'll be playing with this during the day.

SEP

[Geoff Wild]

Here's my anti spam rules.

A good portion comes from:

http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/spamfilters.html

Make sure you check them out so you can install it.

The forgeries section is cool - I saw that from someone else...

First for every domain you only want to receive from their servers:

SIsAol
R$* aol.com $* $@ OK
R$* $#error $: "550 Access Denied. Forgeries are disallowed."

Then check it:

SLocal_check_mail

R$* aol.com $* $: $>IsAol $&{client_name}

What that means is, is someone claims to be say geoff@aol.com and the mail server is NOT aol.com - then it rejects them.

I've attached my mc file, my cf file, and my
SpamFilters.subjmaps. I use maildrop instead of procmail for delivery - make sure you edit that line...


Rgds...Geoff

[Steven E. Protter]

This has got to be one of the all time best ITRC collaborations ever.

Does anyone realize that we could take the configuration that detects forged headers, pump that into the spam account and have a nearly automated spam filter.

Simply awesome.

I laugh at President Bush's spam bill. We have have just solved the problem ourselves.

SEP

[Jordan Bean]

Hi SEP,

Regarding setting IPB to the netblock, IPB=${IP%.*} (not ${IP%%.*}) should be sufficient in ksh, bash, posix shell, but not in bourne shell.