From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81506 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: antispam recommendations Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:20:44 -0800 Message-ID: <8762emuao3.fsf@psinom.home> References: <87r4xcw1vl.fsf@psinom.home> <87d38wovyq.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330713021 1833 80.91.229.3 (2 Mar 2012 18:30:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:30:21 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29786@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Mar 02 19:30:21 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S3XFB-0001AV-IB for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:30:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1S3XEg-0005ju-GC; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:29:46 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1S3XEf-0005jh-7u for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:29:45 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1S3XEd-0005pi-AJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:29:44 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S3XEb-0006SO-91 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:29:41 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S3XEZ-0000n1-Lj for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:29:39 +0100 Original-Received: from s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net ([70.67.174.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:29:39 +0100 Original-Received: from prad by s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:29:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:V06+ejp/XUrvlzIAhgm+ZdDWAZg= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81506 Archived-At: Peter Münster writes: > On Thu, Mar 01 2012, prad wrote: > >> are there any recommendations for setting up anti-spam on gnus? >> i download email from our server with pop. > > I've good experience with this setup: > fetchmail (imap or pop) -> postfix -> procmail -> > spamassassin (via .procmailrc) -> several spool files in ~/.mail -> > gnus with > (setq gnus-select-method '(nnml "Email") > mail-sources '((file) (directory :path "~/.mail"))) > thx for this, peter! i decided to nip things at the source with spamassassin sa-exim following parts of these guides: http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/SpamAssassin/Integrating_SpamAssassin_with_Exim#Spam-Checking_All_Incoming_Mail http://www.stearns.org/doc/archives/spamassassin-setup.v0.5.html i can also black/white list things there, and even managed to block myself which gave me great pleasure for some reason. the plugin for activating shortcircuiting has moved from v310.pre (as one guide indicated) to v320.pre sa marks things as **** SPAM **** and i can filter out on arrival. seems to be working nicely for now. -- in friendship, prad