[extropy-chat] My, they *are* persistent...

[BillK]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:14:42 +0100, Amara Graps wrote:
> 
> It looks like a new-ish SPAM strategy is to send clusters of
> monster 1-Mb files to choke the procmail scripts. Score one
> for the spammers, I guess. It killed the procmail program
> and overloaded the CPU on the machines of my ISP. I honestly
> don't know what rate I was receiving spam- my logs show something
> like three or four thousand per day with most of that going into
> /dev/null. My ISP and I are trying some different things now
> for my domain which presently cuts that number down significantly.
> 

If you have a spam attack inflicted on you, my recommendation is to 
use MailWasher to filter your mail.
<http://www.mailwasher.net/>
MailWasher can be set to auto-delete spam at the ISP, so you never download it.
If you temporarily set MailWasher to check every two minutes and
auto-delete, you should be safe until the attack is over.

Lots of provisos, of course. It runs under Windows, the spam filters
have to be trained, it might delete an important mail in error, etc.

A similar procedure can probably be done using other software.

BillK