UOL spam issue
Thomas Cameron
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Mon Jan 23 06:21:39 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 23:28 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 22:35:01 -0600,
> Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 09:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > This is a really annoying issue and we have been hearing repeated
> > > discussion about it. This is meant to be your be all end all reference
> > > to the great UOL puzzle
> > >
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UOL
> >
> > How can I edit the wiki to add my rules for procmail and/or sendmail to
> > just silently delete the crap coming from UOL?
>
> If possible it is better to reject the mail, than delete it after your server
> has accepted it.
> If you are will to trade some of your server resources for theirs, then
> rejecting with a temporary error is even more nasty, as they may keep the
> message queued up on their server for several days.
I personally reject it at the smtp level with sendmail. However, not
everyone has that luxury, and I was going to post a procmail rule to
trash it once it arrived.
Thoma
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