Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > I thought it was sufficient to look into the headers > of the offending email spammmers and add these respective > IP address and/or host names to the /etc/mail/access file, > but I am beginning to suspect that these headers could be > easily spoofed with bogus entries, right? right. i will make you a suggestion for a method that i use and i have posted to other threads on this list and to thunderbird support list. call it what you want, *spam/junk/phishing*, it is all mail that you do not wish to see. because you are using thunderbird for you email client, set up your junk filtering to move junk email to 'Junk' folder and 'not mark as read'. in your 'tool bar', right click, select 'customize' and from 'customize toolbar' window drag 'Junk' icon to .tool bar', close window. if you read emails in single 'view' window, do same as above for it. when you receive a 'spam/junk/phishing' email, click on email to highlight and click 'Junk' icon on 'tool bar' to move it to 'Junk' folder. when viewing emails in 'view' window, and you have a 'spam/junk/phishing' email appear, click 'Junk' icon to move email to 'Junk' folder. once you have done this for a few emails, 'junk filters' will kick in and start sending 'spam/junk/phishing' emails to 'Junk' folder. when this happens, you will note 'Junk' folder in bold type and small red sun icon will appear. highlight 'Junk' folder to view 'Subject' and 'Sender' to verify that it is 'spam/junk/phishing' email. from time to time you will have 'spam/junk/phishing' emails come in thru list that you are subscribed to. just mark them as 'junk' and they will get sent to 'Junk' folder. this will cause a few good emails to be sent to 'Junk' folder and this is why you leave marked as 'unread' so 'Junk' folder will bold and show you have new 'spam/junk/phishing'. when you highlight email that is good and click 'Junk' icon as 'not junk', move to proper folder. this will take a few times to train thunderbird's junk filters, but it is well worth little effort it takes and you will catch email that 'sendmail' does not catch from headers. also, before readers try to tell me it will not work, try it yourself and you will find that it does. i used this method and it does work to catch what is not caught by my email service providers and has been doing so for several years. hth. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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