On Tuesday 30 Jul 2002 6:57 pm, Rayna Lamb wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I should know this - having been on-line for over a year - but I
> don't.  And I have a feeling I read something someone posted about
> how to deal with this - but I can't remember. (Brain dead here -
> still winter!)  Anyhow, can someone help - is there some kind of
> organisation one can inform of REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY (and I
> do mean really!) offensive spam email (not just the chain letter,
> selling wacko health care products, bank account somewhere you
> never heard of with your name on it kind, but the real perverted,
> twisted kind).  I can live with just deleting most of the stuff
> that comes through, but this one is revolting.  How do I go about
> dealing with/complaining about it?  (In words of one syllable,
> please - brain hurt! :-)
>
> Thanks in advance everyone
>
> Rayna

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