[Ukfreebsd] mail

[Mark Blackman]

On 28 Oct 2008, at 19:42, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:

>
> Not neccessarily a FreeBSD question specifically, although I *am*  
> running
> my mail (pine) on FreeBSD...
>
> I have finally had it with the ridiculous amount of SPAM I manage to
> mis-process every day.  Something like 800/day come in and about  
> half get
> caught by my provider's filter, then another 25% get caught by
> spamassasin.  Don't really know how many real messages get caught in  
> those
> two nets, but if you have to weed through 600 messages per day  
> looking for
> false positives, it kind of defeats the purpose.
>
> I am ready now to go to a whitelist based system, where only senders  
> in my
> whitelist are allowed through to my inbox.  I am wondering if anyone  
> knows
> of some unix based filters of this type.  Preferably also with a  
> blacklist
> and the ability to respond automatically to unseen addresses  
> requesting a
> reply to get whitelisted (assuming spammers will never reply).

Spamassassin (if you can run one under your own control)  can do both
whitelist and blacklist.

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ManualWhitelist

15 seconds of googling didn't find the corresponding blacklist
docs, but I'm pretty sure that's an option with SpamAssassin
too.

I suspect you might want to consider a better mail provider though
or doing it yourself.

- Mark

>
>
> I actually started writing one a few years back and never finished.   
> If
> there isn't one yet I will do so!
>
> Cheers,
>
> j
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