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Bounces

If my experience is anywhere near representative, it seems like the future of SPAM on the Internet is to be sent purportedly from somebody that doesn’t exist, and to somebody that doesn’t exist.

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* ^FROM_MAILER
* ! ^TO_rubys@
* ! ^List-Id
| /home/rubys/bin/logspam

Update: added exclusion for emails containing List-Id as I was no longer seeing emails from the feedvalidator-users mailing list.

I get many, many of these sorts of messages myself.  However, I also get BCC’d messages from time to time, and messages sent to distribution lists.  Does the procmail recipe account for those sorts of legitimate messages at the same time it’s throwing out everything not addressed to you?

-Mike

Posted by Mike West at

From the manpage:

‘^FROM_MAILER’ ... (a stripped down version of ‘^FROM_DAEMON’), which should catch mails coming from most mailer-daemons.

This rule does seem to be letting though mailing list traffic.  FROM_DAEMON won’t. Trust me on this, as atom-protocol went eerily silent for me for a few hours until I figured this out.  ;-)

Posted by Sam Ruby at

Hormel Foods on SPAM and the Internet:

If the term is to be used, it should be used in all lower-case letters to distinguish it from our trademark SPAM, which should be used with all uppercase letters.

;-)

Posted by Lenny at

Spam bounces

Sam Ruby: Bounces: If my experience is anywhere near representative, it seems like the future of SPAM on the Internet is to be sent purportedly from somebody that doesn’t exist, and to somebody that doesn’t exist. I’ve had the same experience. Since...

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