Using Procmail in Linux to fight spam

E-mail is the most important means and tools of communication on the Internet. From the day the e-mail was born, boring spam has become one of the most vexing problems. It is said that the world's annual loss of junk e-mail is as high as $ hundreds of millions of trillion. In the Windows operating system you may have tasted the pain of junk mail, and it is hard to keep you from it. However, don't assume that spam emails are a nuisance to us in the Linux operating system platform, and that it's important to fight back and get rid of emails we don't need. This article describes in detail how to use Procmail to deal with spam. Unwanted emails often affect our online lives. The standard email configuration under the Linux operating system is sendmail and POP mail servers. Many friends who use Linux install SendMail and POP mail servers on their Linux platforms to receive and send e-mail. However, SendMail and POP mail servers are just a tool for sending e-mail under Linux, and they can't handle all kinds of spam. There are so many software and tools for junk e-mail in the Windows platform that most software takes to determine whether an e-mail message is spam by worrying about the subject and the name of the message. However, such a practice is not completely out of all the junk mail, because spammers have long considered this, they can write the subject of the message similar to ordinary mail, or send it anonymously, so it's easy to cheat on spam-prone tool software. In the Linux operating system, we need a good Configuration procmail this program to get rid of unwanted emails as much as possible. Whether you are using the MTA (Mail transfer agent, aka Sendmail) or MUA (mail user agent, aka Netscape Mail) in Linux, you can use Procmail as a way to get rid of junk e-mail. Procmail eliminates the need for additional download installs, you can install the Linux system by default when you install Procmail, Procmail is a powerful tool that can be customized. System administrators can deal with annoying spam by configuring procmail on the client or server side. Responsible Editor Zhao Zhaoyi#51cto.com TEL: (010) 68476636-8001 to force (0 Votes) Tempted (0 Votes) nonsense (0 Votes) Professional (0 Votes) The title party (0 Votes) passed (0 votes) in the original: Linux use Procmail to fight against spam Back to column Recycle Bin Home