Re: [SLUG] I've got a problem

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 23:37:05 EDT


On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 07:16:30PM -0400, Glen Canaday wrote:

> Hey all... any NT mail knowledgeable types out there?
>
> There's an NT mail server out there (postmaster@damn I forget the domain
> name.com) that has so far spammed my mailbox I use for the slug list with
> ~33,000 mails. It's a 'too many hops' message -- I sent the original message
> to the gnu-cad-cam mailing list to sub_scribe me. Do yourself a favor - don't
> email blauedonau.com.
>
> Is there a command I can send to it in email to tell it to stop? Apparently
> their admin is too stupid to notice all the damn mail.
>
> Please reply to gurensan@acer-acces.com and not this address, as I will
> never get it.
>

You can send that garbage to /dev/null with a procmail recipe. You have
to grab a piece of it and find out what it has in common with all the
other spam pieces, like: To: jomama@mydomain.com or something like that.
Then go into your ~/.procmailrc and add something like this:

:0
* ^To: jomama@mydomain\.com
/dev/null

(I believe this will work.) Note that the backslash in front of the dot
in jomama@mydomain.com is necessary; otherwise it interprets it as a
regexp character.

This won't make the email stop flowing, but you won't see it.

Paul



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