On 1/1/2014 2:36 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 02:06:41PM -0500, David wrote:
> Like all spam filters, that I know of, you have to train it. You have to
> mark emails as spam that you consider spam.
Yep.
> Spam Assassin would be the same way I would think. I do not know of any
> spam filter program that already knows what email that *you* consider to
> be spam. Like virus scanners they look for patterns.
Yes. It learns pretty quickly; feed it the "probably spam" and "almost
certainly" spam files at first; eventually all you'll have to add is what
has slipped through.
If you don't want to get into system-wide spam scanning, and/or don't want
to get into the complexities of Spam Assassin, you can get a pretty good
Baysean filter with PopFILE for Linux.
> As for TBird message filters. Those are designed to move messages that
> you want from your inbox to various folders. This message, for me, goes
> to <account_name>/Inbox/Fedora/Users
You often use the message filter in conjunction with your anti-spam
solution--e.g., for PopFILE, have it modify the Subject line to include the
string "[spam]", and then filter on that.
Cheers,
--
Dave Ihnat
dihnat(a)dminet.com
I believe that I said earlier that I have several email accounts. Three
are company provided. One for 'general', one for my secretary, and one
for my foreman. Those three are all encrypted and never get any spam. I
have another for friends and family. Also encrypted too. I have another
that I use for online purchases. And I have the one that I use for
mailing lists and general online 'stuff'. That one, this one, is the
only one that ever gets any spam. Gmail catches most of them. 5-10 per
month. Last year I only had a total of about 100 and only one got all
the way to me.
Any one that get 'hundreds and hundreds a month', IMHO, is doing some
very wrongly.
--
David