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Grex > Helpers > #130: Grex System Problems - Winter 2003/2004 |  |
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albaugh
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response 278 of 384:
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Feb 27 18:09 UTC 2004 |
Yes, 90+ percent of the e-mail I receive at grex is SPAM. I haven't yet made
the effort to set up procmail rules to try to filter out the obvious ones...
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keesan
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response 279 of 384:
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Feb 27 21:04 UTC 2004 |
You can try my .procmailrc (and .forward) - I filter out about 2/3 of my spam
that way. Maybe more, as I am sending some larger categories to /dev/null
and just saving stuff that might also be real mail (hi, hello, test....).
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tod
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response 280 of 384:
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Feb 27 22:47 UTC 2004 |
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keesan
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response 281 of 384:
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Feb 27 23:35 UTC 2004 |
Only add names of people you want mail from at the beginning if you find that
mail from them is ending up in your spam folder(s). I filter into different
folders out of curiosity - you could filter it all to /bulk/ instead.
I was filtering 'hi' 'hello' and 'test' because of a recent virus that no
longer appears to be around (the SCO virus) so you should probably remove
those filters or you might catch a lot of friends in them. If you tend to
get mail from your friends on the subject of medications, or refinancing,
remove those filters too. When something slips through my filters, I look
at the header to see what I might filter on - sometimes something simple
like X-Authentication or X-Mailer that nobody else uses.
Half the Nigeria spams get through - I might add 'Good Morning'.
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tod
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response 282 of 384:
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Feb 27 23:50 UTC 2004 |
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keesan
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response 283 of 384:
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Feb 28 01:30 UTC 2004 |
When you set up a filter, it automatically creates folders when it catches
spam for them. You can mkdir to create them yourself in ~/mail. You can also
save mail to folders and they will be created. To see the different folders,
type L while in Pine. I delete my folders after looking in them and finding
nothing but spam.
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tod
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response 284 of 384:
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Feb 28 15:57 UTC 2004 |
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keesan
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response 285 of 384:
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Feb 28 19:59 UTC 2004 |
Congratulations on your first three filtered spams! Today I added a filter
for X-MSMail-Priority:.* when I got two spams with that in the header (type
H to see the header). Trying to sell vkiagra.
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keesan
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response 286 of 384:
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Feb 28 20:07 UTC 2004 |
Which twit accounts are currently active? I would like to fit all the twits
onto one line of my twit filter. Is the polytarp account, or the dah or
asddsa or naftee or dah account still open?
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rational
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response 287 of 384:
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Feb 28 20:08 UTC 2004 |
None of those accounts are still active.
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salad
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response 288 of 384:
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Feb 28 20:15 UTC 2004 |
Neither are the boltwitz account(s) . You might want to add the coopcf
account, since I plan on adding some more shit with that account.
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remmers
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response 289 of 384:
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Feb 29 12:21 UTC 2004 |
You can find that out using the 'finger' command. For example,
"!finger -m asddsa" yields "no such user".
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salad
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response 290 of 384:
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Feb 29 17:17 UTC 2004 |
That's not foolproof. The 'naftee' account still exists but I can't use it.
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asddsa
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response 291 of 384:
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Feb 29 17:18 UTC 2004 |
re 289 Not anymore!
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jhudson
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response 292 of 384:
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Mar 1 17:11 UTC 2004 |
Since *all* of my e-mail is spam, I set up a rule to bounce it all.
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tod
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response 293 of 384:
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Mar 2 00:21 UTC 2004 |
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keesan
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response 294 of 384:
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Mar 2 01:20 UTC 2004 |
Glad to hear it - how many do you catch every day?
Jim finally succeeded in attaching a file to webmail he was sending with
opera, and mailed it to me. It is plain text. I got the email without the
attachment but with the following explanation:
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WARNING: This e-mail has been altered by MIMEDefang. Following this
paragraph are indications of the actual changes made. For more
information about your site's MIMEDefang policy, contact
Frisco Roque/Rex Roof <admins@localhost>. For more information about
MIMEDefang, see:
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/enduser.php3
A non-multipart attachment named feb29.eml was removed from this document as it
constituted a security hazard. If you require this document, please contact
the sender and arrange an alternate means of receiving it.
[ Part 2: "Attached Text" ]
this has one attachmeent of text. feb29.eml from /D/kermit/
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rcurl
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response 295 of 384:
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Mar 2 01:23 UTC 2004 |
Would it have gone through if it had been .txt instead? Some filters are
on the extensions.
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keesan
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response 296 of 384:
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Mar 2 02:41 UTC 2004 |
That is what I told Jim. I have no idea what .eml meant to him. email?
I recall sending .slk files which Windows interpreted as Excel when they were
slovak. We can't use smtp mail until he figures out the smtp server for WCC
-anyone know that? He wants to compose offline, so he ended up composing the
mail at home, uploading it to grex, importing it into the message body,
sending it to himself at WCC, going to webmail there, and forwarding it. He
sent me a test mail and it got defanged. He wants the From address to be at
wcc - is there some way to set Pine to show a reply-to address or a From
address other than grex?
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gelinas
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response 297 of 384:
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Mar 2 02:53 UTC 2004 |
No, it's not possible to reset the "From:" field in Pine on grex.
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keesan
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response 298 of 384:
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Mar 2 02:58 UTC 2004 |
Is there some way to set a reply-to address with Pine?
I also tried a program which does stmp/pop mail but WCC wanted a domain name
and password which differ from his email login and password and they don't
make public (at least online) what these might be.
The handout also mentions nothing about pop mail at WCC.
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gelinas
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response 299 of 384:
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Mar 2 03:14 UTC 2004 |
Yes, the commands are:
M ; Main menu
S ; Setup
C ; Configure
Then page down to "customized-hdrs" and
A ; Add value
At the prompt, enter
Reply-to:
(Be sure to include the colon).
<RETURN>
to accept the cahnge, the
E ; Exit config
Y ; to commit the changes
When compoosing a message, use
<CTRL>R
to bring up the "Rich Headers", which will include the "Reply-to:" line.
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keesan
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response 300 of 384:
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Mar 2 05:43 UTC 2004 |
I typed Reply-To: instead of Reply-to: but that seems to have worked. At
least it shows up in the received header. Will the recipient's email program
ask if they want to reply to the reply-to rather than the from address?
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gelinas
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response 301 of 384:
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Mar 2 11:47 UTC 2004 |
It's supposed to, Sindi.
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scott
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response 302 of 384:
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Mar 2 13:47 UTC 2004 |
The ".eml" format is how Microsoft usually does attachments. It's
proprietary, of course (those bastards!) but there's an option somewhere to
use plain-text or some other simple format.
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