From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andrew B. Cramer" Subject: Re: Sendmail & SPAM Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:57:05 -0600 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E56A0B1.10346.1745964@localhost> References: <3E56F0EE.1090208@netscape.net> Reply-To: andrew.cramer@cramer-ts.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <3E56F0EE.1090208@netscape.net> Content-description: Mail message body List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: -Glenn- Cc: linux-admin Hi Glenn, Sounds interesting. Here is what I need to do. /Internet/----/MyLinuxServer/----/MyWorkstation/ Can this be used on the MyLinuxServer to do this? What if I don't have X running on the server? Thanks - Andrew On 21 Feb 2003 at 22:39, -Glenn- wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > I'm sort of going thru the same thing in trying to configure my own > mailing system. > > andrew.cramer@cramer-ts.com wrote: > > >Hi, > > Yet another question. Has anyone configured a filter to use with > >Sendmail that uses a list of rejections that will return a 'user not > >found' message back to the sender, and deletes that incoming email? > > > > > > > It seems that sendmail/fetchmail are configured thru the Postfix utility > & that the actual filter(s) can be configured thru fetchmailconf, the > GUI for fetchmail. There's a spam button you can click & I guess that > the Postfix system sends a message to the offender & if the address is > bogus you will get a returned message informing you of such & oh yeah, > the spam is deleted. > > BTW, I have managed to configure it OK with my POP3 accounts, but the > IMAP - (for instance this Netscape account) - accounts seem to escape > me, so far. > > I hope that this will help you. > > Sincerely, > > -Glenn- > -- > Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking, "Where did I go wrong?' > Then a voice says, "This is going to take more than one night." > > ---- Charles M. Schultz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts" >