spam - ideas?

Joe Wamsley jw at netrattler.net
Mon May 23 00:48:16 UTC 2005


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Erik Bågfors wrote:
> If using evolution, start to mark mail as junk (and yes, it uses
> spamassassin so you need that installed locally). Make sure you have
> "check for spam" on in the settings. After markin spam as junk for a
> while, spamassasin will learn. The more you use it, the better it
> gets.
> 
> I've gotten mine to take about 99.5% or my spam and I only had like 3
> false-possitives. I get hundreds of spam each day.
> 
> You can do the same with thunderbird but I don't know how it performs.
> 
> /Erik
> 
> 
> On 5/22/05, Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net> wrote:
> 
>>Looking for any ideas folks might have to combat spam, once it starts
>>flooding in...
>>
>>I have spamassassin enabled on my e-mail account but have noticed, of
>>late, that a lot is getting through... hundreds a week, which is really
>>clogging up my mailbox. Unfortunately this is the account that most
>>people use, so I can't just "switch it off" but am having real trouble
>>managing to delete all the rubbish.
>>
>>Any ideas how I might make Spamassassin perform better, or other tools
>>that I could use in conjunction to filter out the garbage?
>>
>>Sean
>>
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>>
> 
> 
I'm currently using thunderbird and I just setup a filter to mark anyone
not in my addressbook or collected addressbook as junk. I no longer get
anymore spam in my Inbox.

Joe
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