Re: [OT] procmail recipe advice for spamassassin

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 00:45, Scot L. Harris wrote: fetchmail, postfix, and procmail (although procmail does very little, I let Evolution do all of my filtering into folders). I'm not sure you'd call it a *full* MTA, in the sense that it isn't open to the outside world. Because I'm a web developer its useful to have a mail server running on the loopback interface so I can't test web applications which need to connect to an SMTP server. But I do pull my mail using fetchmail, which means it ends up via postfix and procmail in /var/spool/mail/darren which is where Evolution finds it. Yes, I've read up on grey-listing a little, and I think I've seen a post or two on this list about it. The trouble is that I'm not sure if it would work for me. (But I haven't had a chance to look into it properly.) I get between 200 and 300 a day. But the trouble is that all the mail is retrieved by fetchmail, from servers where its already been accepted. I don't know if grey-listing would work in those circumstances. Spam doesn't make too much of an impact on my time, but it really does on my mood. I'm not sure which is worse. Sometime I feel myself just getting really angry when I'm going through the spam folder. I know I should try and chill more, but spammers really irritate me. It's the sort of anti-social behaviour that just chips a few degrees off of the quality of everyone's lives. They really piss me off. Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren(a)dzr-web.com www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================