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  From: Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@xavier.sa.edu.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:58:22 +0930

Re: Sendmail filtering

Daryl Tester wrote:
> Of course, otherwise you're increasing the risk of a false positive
> (filtering a subject line based on the word "joke" is no solution).

No.

> Which Sendmail, per se, doesn't do.  However, there are other methods
> you can use: intercepting it as mail is being delivered (via procmail,
> which was one of your original suggestions), or funneling unprocessed
> messages through a custom mailer then redirecting it back into sendmail.
> As you said, milter should hopefully open this up to some much grander
> methods (spam alert based on a averaged messages-per-second would be
> a nice idea), although it's still marked as experimental.

We could always set up some kind of rule that sends all mail to a
'/dev/null' mailer. ;-).

Mmmm Oblivion.

> Interesting
> to note that the 8.11.0 betas are out already - there seems to be a
> frenzy of development in sendmail.

Yes, it appears that at the moment, they are trying to deal more with
SMTP AUTH various security measures that are similar. I actually
thought, though, that they were up to 8.11.3 beta. I'm probably
mistaken.

> 
> Regrds,
>   Daryl Tester
> 
> PS - Your horde thingy is still putting backslashes in front of apostrophes.

I know. I hardly use it myself, but I still don't have time to track
down that problem.

;-)

-- 

Matthew Geddes
Network Manager
Xavier College
Gawler, SA

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