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Grex > Coop13 > #376: The problems with Grex, e-mail and spam | |
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keesan
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response 476 of 480:
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Mar 23 22:11 UTC 2007 |
Someone from India wrote that he had been trying to make his own .procmailrc
and had failed, and thanks for mine, which was working. Then my mail to him
bounced. How do I get hold of him to let him know something is broken?
My filter worked for other people. He probably tried to improve it.
USER is not his real login.
pipe to |/usr/local/bin/procmail
generated by USER@grex.cyberspace.org
The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:
------ pipe to |/usr/local/bin/procmail
generated by USER@grex.cyberspace.org ------
procmail: Lock failure on "/var/mail/USER.lock"
procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/USER"
[two more copies of these two lines follow]
------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
Subject: Re: Lots of spam
> Sindi,
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> Thanks for all the help. I have copied the .procmail and .forward in my
> folder. I had a .procmail myself, but it did not work - most likely reason
> being I could not set it up correctly.
> I hope to get some relief from mails related to viagra, free holiday on hawai
> island, penis enlargement medicine, personal loans - all of which I do not
> need.
> Thanks once again.
USER from India
Followed by my response.
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keesan
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response 477 of 480:
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Mar 24 15:20 UTC 2007 |
Please could some staff member edit .procmailrc for guntun and change
/var/mail/guntum to /var/mail/guntun. My goof. Or even just delete the file
so I can write him about this. Or copy over ~keesan/procmailrc.guntun to
there.
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gelinas
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response 478 of 480:
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Mar 25 00:58 UTC 2007 |
(I fixed it, Sindi.)
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keesan
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response 479 of 480:
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Mar 25 02:29 UTC 2007 |
Thanks, Gelinas. I will notify the other staff members.
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keesan
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response 480 of 480:
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Mar 26 03:31 UTC 2007 |
Tenth request for a spam filter, from Jogya[karta?]. I now have a universal
procmailrc.user to be copied to .procmailrc that sends mail to
/var/mail/$USER, which I tested on myself.
Copy that and .forward. Could copies of these files be put some place other
than my home directory, and a script be put on the path to copy them
automatically, perhaps even from the menu?
My default - throw out anything with 3 points, put anything with 2-2.99 points
in spam folder, do not keep a log. One guinea pig said his log got so big
he was near quota on disk space. Everyone has been getting 80% of spam
discarded and most of the rest in the spam folder. I put in some samples for
whitelists and for sending list mail to a separate folder and for sending mail
with certain strings in the message body to the spam folder.
Two people just wanted to set up whitelists. I have not heard back from them.
We could have a spamfilter script and a whitelist script.
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