[OT] procmail help

[Dimitrios <se...@altered.com>]

I'm sorry for posting this here, i understand the SA list
has nothing to do with procmail, but i feel more comfortable
around you people ;)

I'm sick and tired of all the 'postmaster', your message
contains a virus or some other crap that i keep getting
from servers administered by idiots.

I'd like to add a rule in my procmail that stops
all emails with a From: address that contains 'postmaster'
or 'mailer-daemon', and moves them to /dev/null.

can someone help please?

Re: [OT] procmail help

[LuKreme <kr...@kreme.com>]

On 26 Jul 2004, at 18:24, Dimitrios wrote:
> I'm sorry for posting this here, i understand the SA list
> has nothing to do with procmail, but i feel more comfortable
> around you people ;)
>
> I'm sick and tired of all the 'postmaster', your message
> contains a virus or some other crap that i keep getting
> from servers administered by idiots.

Learn them as the spam they are and very soon Bayes will take them out 
of your life forever.

> I'd like to add a rule in my procmail that stops
> all emails with a From: address that contains 'postmaster'
> or 'mailer-daemon', and moves them to /dev/null.

That would be a very bad idea as it would trash legitimate bounces.

:0
* ^FROM_DAEMON
/dev/null

IIRC, but really, don't do this.

-- 
"As God as my witness, I though turkeys could fly," Arthur Carlson, 
WKRP in Cincinnati

Re: [OT] procmail help

[Dimitrios <se...@altered.com>]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:36:07 -0600 "Andrew Ott" <ao...@actcom.net> wrote:

> Should take care of it, after writing that, I betting that will kill your
> own postmaster messages to yourself too, so be careful in use.

thank you, much appriciated!

btw, these emails come to a spamtrap account which i occasionaly use to
register to sites (and let them send me 'permission marketing crap'),
so postmaster emails are of no real use.

RE: [OT] procmail help

[Andrew Ott <ao...@actcom.net>]

Something like:

:0
* ^From: .*(mailer-daemon|postmaster).*
/dev/null

Should take care of it, after writing that, I betting that will kill your
own postmaster messages to yourself too, so be careful in use.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dimitrios [mailto:sehh@altered.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 5:25 PM
To: spamassassin-users@incubator.apache.org
Subject: [OT] procmail help

I'm sorry for posting this here, i understand the SA list has nothing to do
with procmail, but i feel more comfortable around you people ;)

I'm sick and tired of all the 'postmaster', your message contains a virus or
some other crap that i keep getting from servers administered by idiots.

I'd like to add a rule in my procmail that stops all emails with a From:
address that contains 'postmaster'
or 'mailer-daemon', and moves them to /dev/null.

can someone help please?