permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Richard Morris wrote:

> For spam mail catching I'm using SpamAssassin
> http://spamassassin.org/. Its catching about 30-40 spams
> a day. Getting about one false positive a week but
> letting through about 5 spams a day.
>
> I use it on a linux account which filters the mail
> before I need to download it to my home computer
> through a dial up connection. Hence its saving me a lot
> of time downloading spam messages.
>
> I'm also using procmail to do a few other things.
>     1) Catch big messages > 50K
>     and saves them on in a folder
>     on my linux account. Many of these are
>     virus. A notification of the arrival of big
>     messages is sent to my home computer.
>     2) autoreply to the first message I receive
>     from a person.
>     3) Deletes audio/x-wav and audio/x-midi messages
>     (often viruses)
>     4) Implement a white list of people I know.
>     5) Implement a black list of persistent spammers.
>
>     Rich

Procmail is invlauable if you are able to create effective recipes, not to 
difficult
for simple mail filtering and post processing.

> p.s. out of interest how many spams are others on the
> list receiving?

I receive about 6000 or more a month in my Linux account on ibiblio. I just 
delete the entire
default mbox procmail dumps everyting left over after filtering into.

My ISP pre-filters spam email for me and its user configurablefor more/less 
severe filtering.
Mozilla email also has a spam filtering engine that you can train to 
intercept preidentified
spam types, done as you use its junk mail flag to mark examples of spam for 
its database;
the icon for that says: "click to sort by junk status".


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