Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why

[jdow]

From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at toybox.placo.com>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>
>>Spam I sort through. With SpamAssassin scoring it's easy to find
>>the low scores and concentrate on them. But somebody arrogant enough
>>to spam me with a challenge for a message to a mailing list ends
>>up on my procmail /dev/null rules. (I use fetchmail to grab mail
>>and procmail to feed it to /var/spool/mail/<name> with stops along
>>the way for SpamAssassin, ClamAv, and some random cleverness.)
>>
> 
> Unfortunately, jdow, since your using this setup, the spammer has
> already successfully delivered the mail to you.  The fact that you
> delete the spam before reading makes no difference - the spammer
> doesen't know that and thinks they have successfully delivered it.

No they have not. They've managed to get it onto my machine, transiently.
It never got delivered to ME, the organic unit here at this email
address. I do vet spam. The items redirected to /dev/null are items
I do not want to bother with while vetting real spam.

> Denying the spam before it's even accepted into the server is a
> much better way.  Unfortunately, a content filter means you have to

If you can make fetchmail do that you're pretty clever, kemo sabe.

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