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Re: spam howto



kamaraju kusumanchi on 17/11/05 13:10, wrote:
Matt Price wrote:

Hi folks,

Looking for a simple spam-control howto.  I have tried setting up
bogofilter & spamassassin in the past & I've always run into trouble;
the process sometimes seems incredibly complex. Any help out there?

Matt

In order to get rid of all the spam that I get due to posting to public archived mailing lists etc., I subscribe to mailing lists through a gmail account. Gmail spam filtering is quite effective and filters almost 95% of the spam. But the gmail web interface is not that great (no thread view, cannot easily delete emails etc.,). So I use pop functionality of gmail account and read these emails by using thunderbird (you can also use other email clients such as mutt etc.,)

The above solution works 90% of the time but it is not the proper way of spam filtering (I think). But hey! it works and I dont need to spend time about reading thousands of lines of documentation.

That sounds like a pretty good filter rate. I'm relying on Thunderbird's built-in spam filter which is meant to train itself but it's no more than 60% to 70% effective. Adam





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