Thank you Sheryl, I am aware of Eudora and other POP readers as well as POP
filters. Because my entire company is getting plaqued with this junk, I'd
like to choke it off at the source, that being my inbound SMTP server.
Otherwise, I'm at the mercy of setting up and controlling Eudora type
filters for each user...
At 09:17 AM 7/7/97 -0700, Sheryl A. Campbell wrote:
>Barry,
>
>I know how you feel. I get upwards of 150-200 messages a day, myself. If I
>wasn't able to filter, I would lose the important messages. Unfortunately, I
>don't know of anything specifically that works for unix mail. However,
>depending upon how you are set up, the full-blown Eudora program is worth
>every penny and more of the price. (As an educational institution, I think
>it cost us $49.95.) I have been able to set up pretty complex filters, so
>that internal mail can go into a 'to-do box', certain mail-lists get
>filtered into other folders, other messages (like those from CERT) go into
>the to-do box with a raised proiority, and messages containing certain
>combinations of letters (like HR or PAY from another list I belong to) are
>just thrown immediately into the trash. It has been an absolute time-saver
>for me in the morning. I used to go through each of the titles of my
>messages and hand-filter them -- ugly indeed.
>
>Again, this all dependds upon whether you have a POP server set up or not. I
>wish you luck in your quest, and if you DO find something for DU, I know
>MANY MANY people who would be interested!!
>
>Best Regards,
>
> Sheryl
>
>
>
>At 08:42 AM 7/7/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>I have received as much 'junk-mail' as I can take. I am hoping that someone
>>else has hit their limit and development a filtering package that would work
>>in my environment. I have an SMTP server running on my bastion machine,
>>which uses aliases to forward to my internal server on an alternate SMTP
>>port that is not accessible from the outside world.
>>
>>I'd like to have my bastion machine, that is listening to port 25, to screen
>>messages based on domain names that have a track-record of IP/domain
>>mangling, domains that do not succeed in a DNS lookup or reverse IP lookup,
>>and to some extent based on message or subject line content.
>>
>>Please, if you have or know of somethings that will do this, please let me
>>know. I took a brief look at procmail, but I'm not an SMTP expert and
>>couldn't make heads-or-tails of how to do everything that I want to
accomplish.
>>
>>TIA
>>
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