From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14003 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Edvard Majakari Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Spam discarding system I've found extremely efficient Date: 14 Feb 1998 01:20:18 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153267 12352 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:34:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:34:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15471 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:22:55 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA11104 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:21:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAN23837; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:57:37 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:20:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA14730 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 17:20:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 18568 invoked by uid 504); 13 Feb 1998 23:20:23 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 18565 invoked from network); 13 Feb 1998 23:20:22 -0000 Original-Received: from a41a.otanner.ton.tut.fi (HELO lodge.ton.tut.fi) (qmailr@193.166.83.126) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 1998 23:20:22 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 17760 invoked by uid 503); 14 Feb 1998 01:20:18 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 42 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.25/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14003 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14003 Ok, that # R works nice, thank you for informing me. Now that I'm at it, I wonder why 'junk' doesn't throw mail to /dev/null. I know it might be for security reasons, but as I use the following rule to discard spam: (setq nnmail-split-fancy '(| ... (from "\\.fi" "other") (to-cc edvard "other") "junk") ) That is, if the mail headers don't match anything used by my friends, I check if the domain ends in .fi. If it doesn't, I give a poor chap one more chance :) - there's an abbreviation called edvard which is a regexp matching all my e-mail addresses. Then, because most spams (over 90% at least, IMHO) don't contain a valid To-field, if this rule fails too, I consider the mail spam and want to discard it. I played with this system half a year, only that I made the last rule put mail to nnml:spam. One message which wasn't spam message ended up there, and it wasn't any important. All very important mail coming to me (work etc) comes from .fi domain and contains a valid to-field too - so I'm happy with the system. Of course, this system requires that there is a mail group for all mailing lists, as those usually are not from .fi domain, and don't have a to-field pointing to you either. But back to my question: it seems like Gnus creates a directory called junk anyway, and thinking of spam e-mail using my HDD is annoying :) I could use the similar system with procmail, but I find it inelegant, as Gnus already contains necessary features to implement it (I just don't know how exactly). How do I point mail to /dev/null, so that it won't use any space? At the moment I've rm'd ~/Mail/junk once in a while, but.. -- //Ed GSM: 040 5960810 URL: http://lodge.ton.tut.fi/%7Eed/ I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident. :-) --Larry Wall on s/foo/bar/eieio in <10911@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>