OSU Physics Faqs : Computing (general) : Email : How do I deal with spam and viruses?
We don’t have an effective way to *stop* it. We do have some ways to help manage it. Brian Keller points out that you can get yourself removed temporarily from some of the spam lists by actually following their unsubscribe instructions. I find this risky – some of them use that as confirmation of a real address and send more, and a couple times we’ve seen retaliation in the form of viruses sent in response to an unsubscribe attempt. However, this is the strategy Brian uses. On Unix, we have a utility called SpamAssassin, which is run via procmail. This tool is unavailable on VMS (the VMS server quarantines spam and viruses using a system called Precisemail). To use SpamAssassin, follow these instructions on Unix: Create a file named ~/.procmailrc containing the following (what is in between the “cut here” lines, not including them): –cut here– PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/.from INCLUDERC=/usr/local/share/procmail-include –cut here– Now, emai
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