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From: Stan Hoeppner on 18 Jun 2010 09:51
Mark Goodge put forth on 6/18/2010 4:28 AM:

> 1. Just discard spam.

By this I hope you mean rejecting the message at SMTP time, not accept and
move to /dev/null.

Regarding the OP's original issue, im my experience, nearly all spam that has
a 'from' address matching the local 'to' address is bot spam. Bot spam is
usually easily killed by using a small handful of good dnsbls, mainly Spamhaus
ZEN as it contains the CBL, and with local rDNS checks against the IP of the
sending host.

If your default/preferred method of fighting spam is accepting everything and
then categorizing it with a content filter...well...I pit you. This is a
horrible method for fighting/killing spam, and you will forever be plagued
with problems.

ALWAYS reject as much spam as possible at SMTP time using various sane, tried,
and true measures. For that which still gets though, run it through your
content filters and either pipe it to /dev/null, a quarantine, or tag it for
MUA spam filters. Again, NEVER accept everything and then filter.

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Stan

From: Bas Mevissen on 21 Jun 2010 14:58
On 18-6-2010 11:38, Birta Levente wrote:

> In my opinion the best way is to block all mails if sender appear in
> recipient addresses. (I think it's stupid to send mail to yourself, if
> it's about not spam)
>

It is very common to send something to yourself. For example if you want
to work on a document of your day job at home.
(although I only save them to the drafts folder on my IMAP server)

--
Bas

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