On Dec 29, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Alistair Crooks wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 08:45:13PM -0000, De Zeurkous wrote:
>> Haai,
>>
>> On Fri, December 28, 2007 19:54, Martijn van Buul wrote:
>>> * De Zeurkous:
>>>> Haai,
>>>>
>>>> My last message, addressed to jmcneill@invisible.ca (and  
>>>> fortunately
>>>> properly CC'ed to tech-pkg), evoked the following response:
>>>
>>> No, CC'ed to tech-kernel, I have no clue why you decided to bother
>>> tech-pkg..
>>
>> I don't either. My bad :^) -- the usual excuses apply...
>>
>>>
>>>>  (reason: 550 5.7.1 Sorry, we do not accept SPAM at invisible.ca.)
>>>>
>>>> While I may be a flamer and an IRC bot overengineer, I'm not  
>>>> exactly a
>>>> spammer. Please fix.
>>>
>>> You also complain to the wrong people. You need to talk to the  
>>> fine people
>>> at invisible.ca. They're the wrong blocking your message.
>>
>> No. jmcneill should. If it's his server -- can't be bothered to  
>> check it
>> right now, I /still/ have a lack of decent sleep on my hands -- he  
>> should
>> fix it himself; if he uses a third party mail service, he should.
>
> The Cc:  line has not been trimmed.  Please feel free to complain
> about it on the Linux kernel mailing list.
>
> For everyone's information, I asked Jared for the rule which he used
> to block your email, and he told me that he used the following rule:
>
> 	/^From:.*@nichten.info/ REJECT Sorry, we do not accept SPAM at  
> invisible.ca.
>
> in the postfix header checks.

I see the problem.  This whole thread could have been avoided had  
Jared simply had a more informative return message from postfix...  
This is what I have:

/^From:.*@nichten.info/ REJECT Sorry, we do not accept mail from trolls.

Hope that helps.

>
>
> I know of many other people who prefer to block spam at the MUA level
> using procmail so:
>
> 	::
> 	FROM.*zeurkous@nichten.info
> 	spam
>
> in .procmailrc.
>
> Regards,
> Alistair
>
> PS. For anyone following up, I'd be grateful if you could include  
> this email
> in its entirety, please. Thanks in advance.

You're welcome, squire.