Thanks Deri, I'll have a go with your suggestions when I wake up a
bit. :-)

Rayna

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:10:24AM +0100, Deri James wrote:

    Hi Rayna,

    You're using Mutt aren't you? Mutt uses scoring rules to deal with
    Spam, if a message gets a score of less than zero mutt will
    automatically delete it for you (so you won't see it).

    Here is an article on the subject:-

    <http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/1107.mutt2.html>

    You can also type:-

            man mutt
            man muttrc

    for some info (but a bit technical).

    The article has some examples. the file you put these examples in is
    "~/.muttrc".

    If this file already exists make a copy of it first by:-

            cp ~/.muttrc ~/MuttRc.old

    (if you get an error then the file doesn't exist - which is quite
    likely).

    Then you can edit/create the file with:-

            vi ~/.muttrc

    If it all goes horrible just delete it with:-

            rm ~/.muttrc

    and copy it back (if it already existed):-

            mv ~/MuttRC ~/.muttrc

    I suggest you don't set the scores to -1 straight away, set them to
    zero, they will appear at the bottom of the list, then when this
    works you can change it to -1.

    Meir pointed you at SpamCop, they probably can't do much for you, a
    lot of Spam comes from "open relays".

    The only known instance of someone culling e-addies from the List is
    GigerMD, there are plenty of other ways your addy can be nicked.

    Hope this helps

    Cheers

    Deri