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Subject: Re: stopping spam from far east
From: Bennett Todd (betrahul.net)
Date: Wed Apr 26 2000 - 11:17:36 CDT

I'd personally recommend leaving Postfix out of this discussion.

Spam-blocking is tricky work, and different users will have
different wishes. My own favourite approach is to use quite
aggressive spam-filtering rules, currently implemented in procmail,
and simply file all suspected spam into a spam folder. It's very
fast and easy to glance at a folder full of junkmail and agree, yup,
there's nothing there I care about. And it's also easy to pick out
the occasional false-positive, where a piece of legitimate email has
mistakenly been filed there. Rules sufficiently aggressive to block
nearly all spam will also catch the occasional piece of real email
from a human.

I attach the Junkfilter rules I've added, which seem to catch
virtually all the china spam. Junkfilter is a suite of procmail
scripts. NB this file contains characters with the 8th bit set, in
some of the pattern expressions, so I'm making the attachment
quoted-printable.

-Bennett

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