I use the wonderful MUA, Mutt, and suffer (like most) from spam. I often get reoccurring spam from the same address … here is a short HOWTO to make your email spam free.

As mentioned earlier I use Spam Bouncer to filter most of my email. However, some still gets through to my inbox … to help rid myself of this I did the following.

First here is what you’ll need on your system:

• PHP
• Mutt
• Procmail

Next you’ll need to put the following in your .procmailrc:
@@@SMARTY:TRIM:PRE@@@

Next you’ll want to download this script and put it in your path somewhere.

You’ll also need to set DEVNULL to ~/.devnull (ie DEVNULL=~/.devnull) in your .procmailrc.

Finally, you need to create a small mutt macro to mark email as spam … put the following in your .muttrc.

@@@SMARTY:TRIM:PRE@@@

Now when you hit F1 the From: address will be added to the file ~/.devnull. This is when procmail takes over – all email addresses in .devnull will be sent to /dev/null. So if the email address appears in the From, To, Cc, Bcc, or Reply-To headers the email will never reach your inbox. Email me if you have any questions.