by The gentle readers processing their email on a Unix-system, or
getting their email through a Unix-based system, might be interested
in the following information.
Foiling Spam with an Email Password System
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/spamfoil.html
1. An Email Password System
2. Further useful links about spam
3. Comments and Questions about Timo's Method
Timo's procmail tips and recipes
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html
1. I want to filter my email automatically. How do I get started
with procmail?
2. Building a testbench. How can I test individual procmail
recipes?
3. I know how to make "and" rules in procmail recipes, but how do I
make "or" rules?
4. How can one perform multiple shell commands on the action line?
5. How can I find out what the subject of a posting is?
6. How do I get a copy of the headers of all the incoming email
into a separate file?
7. Would you give some further hints for spam foiling recipes?
8. I have limited disk space. How can I truncate long messages?
9. How can I quickly test if my rules with regular expressions
match?
10. How can I detect if the email comes, say, from the .com domain?
11. What alternatives do I have to detect a sender all through the
various header-fields?
12. How can I extract the address of the sender's postmaster?
13. How can I weed out an inordinately long recipient list?
14. What is this procmail scoring? How can I utilize it?
15. How can I test if the subject is empty or if the subject field
is missing altogether?
16. How can I modify the "To:" field of the email I received?
17. I have a long list of spammers in a separate file. How can I
utilize it?
18. How do I forward certain messages that I get, and preserve myself a
copy?
19. I tried out your tips, but some of them failed on my system. What
next?
20. Is there a cure for the echo and grep blues?
21. What unix manuals relating to procmail should I get?
22. I liked this material. Do you have anything else on programming?
All the best, Timo
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Prof. Timo Salmi ftp & http://garbo.uwasa.fi/ archives 193.166.120.5
Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa
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