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On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 11:50:23 +0800, John wrote: > On Friday 06 September 2002 22:10, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > SPAM/UCE is a real problem with mail accounts where you don't > > control the mail server and hence cannot install anti-SPAM software. > > Create a free Yahoo account. You might not get one at yahoo.com, but > you can in some of its other domains. > > Set it so you can POP your email with fetchmail. > Create a filter to drop all mail not sourced from redhat.com. > > I actually haven't spam-proofed my V address. Yet. > > Don't tell anyone though;-) Pretty drastic method just to escape SPAM. But Yahoo's filter is too limited, because it can only move mail into a "Trash" folder which accounts to the total quota. The alternative is to download all e-mail prior to killing it with mighty procmail or other tools. I do that with the rare SPAM at my GMX address, too, of course. My account that is flooded with SPAM is a free Yahoo!GeoCities account. It's several years old. Each day, Yahoo fills the "Bulk" folder (where it stores messages caught by its own Spamtrap system) with 12-20 mails of size 120-200 KiB. These alone would kill the size limit soon if they were not removed regularly, but actually when I click such a mail it is truncated to just the headers. To me it looks as if each message contained a popular virus attachment and Yahoo cut it off. I consider that mail account "lost". I might let it exceed its quota and activate a long automatic vacation response containing some rants about SPAM and an alternative contact address/URL. ;) -- _______________________________________________ Limbo-list mailing list Limbo-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/limbo-list
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