Re: thoughts on spam

[Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>]

This discussion has finally motivated me to try TMDA.  Just built and
installed it but I'm having trouble figuring the best way to use it
with all the mailing lists I'm already on.

Naturally, the second I enabled it in .qmail[-default] it started
pumping msgs to ~/.tmda/pending.  

The FAQ indicates that I can add stuff to "whitelist" which TMDA
should compare with Envelope-Sender, and the body From: and Reply-To:
headers.

I don't see anything in my qmail logs which tells me the envelope
sender; any suggestions how I can capture this?  For mailing lists,
the From: is usually not what I want, since that just gets the
originating human's address. Most the lists I'm on do not have a
Reply-To: either.

So all I can match on is what qmail-smtpd records as the connecting
host, not a full envelope from. This is way too broad.

Sounds like the best thing is to unsubscribe from all my lists then
resubscribe with one of the username-extensions like "sender", right?

That's gonna take some time, so I'm looking for clues to help me make
the transition less painful.  Suggestions welcomed.

Thanks.

PS: To keep it on topic, I'm using the Gnus that came with Emacs21.