Re: wallowing out of the spam quagmire

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On 25 Jun 2004, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> So to summarize.  I let procmail/sa do most splitting and culling out
>> of spam.  When that is done, the rest comes to my inbox and I deal
>> with it by hand.  I hoped to introduce bogofilter at that stage.
>
> My suggestion for you is to tell procmail to run all mail through
> bogofilter.  You can tell bogofilter to add a header saying whether
> the mail is spam.

This is a good suggestion, and the way I generally prefer to deal with
spam detection -- doing it before I even see the message in my "new
mail" indicator.

OTOH, I have a preference for SpamAssassin, which does the same
statistical stuff as Bogofilter, and a bunch of other useful testing as
well.

If you have control over your SMTP server, take a look at the
'amavisd-new' package, which hooks into the loop and deals with SPAM
tagging with SpamAssassin as well as virus detection, and works very
nicely.

        Daniel
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