Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] EMail addresses in list archives

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Jonathan King wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
> > My spam has also been growing.  However it is interesting to note that
> > most of it is sent to an email address that I have not used for
> > several years.  So I don't think that they got it from MLUG.  I just
> > think that spammers have been a lot more active these days.
>
> Over 90% of my spam comes from a dormant but forwarding address these
> days as well.  I know that MU does some filtering, but I don't know how.


Same here.  Much of my spam goes to my old address at MU and is forwarded
to my new address at U Minn.  So I use procmail to filter those messages
to a different inbox at U Minn.  This is how I do it:

:0:
* for <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
mail/IN.mailerrors

That works even for messages that have been Bcc'd to my old address (so
that the old address does not appear in either To: or Cc: fields).

I also send a bunch of other stuff to the same inbox using these lines:

:0:
* ^FROM_MAILER
mail/IN.mailerrors

:0:
* ^Subject: (.*Autoreply|.*Auto-reply)
mail/IN.mailerrors


It has been working very well for me.  I don't send these things to
/dev/null because something like 20% of them are messages I want.  The
"FROM_MAILER" thing will grab stuff from mailing lists, but I filter those
messages using earlier commands in the same procmail recipe.

Mike
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