On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 11:23, James Kosin wrote: > |because I only use this adress for fedora mailing lists and never for > |any other purpose. > > Vassilios, > > Unfortuneately, when you post to any list (I do mean any), many other > independant sites host archives of the list and many many people on > this list receive email from the list with other peoples email > addrsses. That the only secure email address is one that NEVER sends > an email. > > You could alternately change sendmail (maybe) to only accept mail > delivery from a known source... but, that may quickly grow into a > massive project to manage. > > The junk mail has been minimal now; but, I still get some that come in > now and then 20-30 a day. > > There are also many SPYware applications, ADDware or JUNKware I like > to call them. Out there that may also collect this information. I have found that using spamassassin configured as a filter works extremely well. Each week I get several hundred spam. Of those a small handful get past spamassassin into my inbox, no more than 10 or 15 in a week. The remainder get put in the junk mail folder where I periodically run sa-learn against them. Just cleaned out the junk mail folder which had over 400 spam messages trapped since last week. The best spam tool I have found so far is greylisting. Unfortunately you need to control your MTA in order to set this up. With greylisting you can block 99%+ of spam that is sent out. One small company I set this up for went from ~8000 spam messages a day to 10 a day. And those 10 were caught by spamassassin. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one. -- James Gordon Bennett
