Re: [cobalt-users] Banning Email

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Kevin Cawthorne" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The email is "hahaha@xxxxxxxxxx", which I duley added to the "do not
accept
> emsil from.." bit in the email bit of the VCP, but this email still seems
to
> be getting through!
>
> Any suggestions to stopping amy email from that address?

If you're not familiar with procmail (http://www.procmail.org/) you may want
to take a look at it.  Among other things (like routing mail to folders,
forwarding mail, generating autoresponders), procmail lets you setup rules
to filter and block email that match criteria you set.  And the criteria can
match any combo. of text found in either the message headers (subject, from,
to, date, etc.) or body.  There are plenty of spam related procmail recipes
(term used to refer to procmail rules).  If you search google for 'procmail
spam' (without the quotes) you should find quite a few.  procmail shoudl
already be on your server.  Of course, this requires leaving the GUI, but
it's not that hard.

If you get as much spam as I do, having the right spam filters can block
dozens of messages per day, though the messages are received by the server
and processed before they're discarded.

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Steve Werby
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