Spam Busting Comes Crashing Down

[tfofurn]

Remember my spam-handling trick from way back? The one where I gave out one-time email addresses on my web site, and then dumped those addresses that received spam in the trash? And addresses that didn't match the pattern for my one-times were forwarded to Gmail, which has been handling almost 200,000 of them per month? I was excited back when

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[alynch]

Find the mail spool - generally `/Maildir/ and manually delete the files in cur or new. Or, it might be /var/spool/mail/$USER, where you can just nuke that one file.

[tfofurn]

It was a single-file mailbox. The hosting folks were kind enough to split it into eight chunks, each about 30 MB. To put it mildly, oy.

[alynch]

er, ~/Maildir/

Spam Busting Comes Crashing Down

[anonymous]

Doo-dah, doo-dah