[LBo] Spam, plague of the XXIst century

[Tim Cruikshank]

On November 14, 2006 15:22, jisao wrote:
> a) a good spam controller
> b) a good text on filters and operands
> c) whatever else you know about that works.
>

I've been using bogofilter (http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/)for a couple of 
years with great success.

I have a separate server set up that I use to retrieve my mail with fetchmail 
which then passes it to procmail which runs the mail through bogofilter. If 
bogofilter detects the mail as spam a procmail rule sends it to a mailbox 
called spam, otherwise it continues to process it and sorts it into several 
different mailboxes which I then retrieve from my desktop via POP.

I have this set up on a separate server, but the same thing could be done 
locally on your main machine. The main reason for setting it up separately 
was so I could try out different distros on my desktop machine without having 
to re-configure my mail filtering system each time.

At one time when I was posting to Usenet using my main email address I was 
receiving 100+ spam messages per day. Bogofilter would catch all but one or 
two per week. Since I no longer use that address for posting, the spam has 
dropped to about 10-20 per day and bogofilter misses maybe one or two per 
month.

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Tim Cruikshank <linux.debian.user at gmail.com>
Linux User #246684