Re: Spam filters

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 02:58:41AM -0500, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
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> So I modified my whitelist filter to only capture mail that does not
> contain a space anywhere after '^From: ' in the header. (so from now
> on, almost all the mail that gets trapped by this filter will be spam,
> and I can check it even less often than before.)
>
> The new line I added to my .procmailrc is:
>
>     * ^From: .*\
>
> (the trailing space is important)

Oops... no, that doesn't work, because procmail strips leading
and trailing whitespace. (I thought I tested it and it worked,
but I guess not.)

So I changed that to:

   SPACE=" "
   :0
   *$ ^From: .*$SPACE

etc.

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