Re: Fight spam with BBDB database?

Re: Fight spam with BBDB database?

[Christian Lynbech]

>>>>> "David" == David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> writes:

David> Richard Wellum <rwellum@cisco.com> writes:
>> It's just an idea, wanted to see if it was possible. Could I filter all
>> email from users not in my BBDB database into a SPAM folder? That way I
>> could run through the SPAM folder periodically, if there is a legitimate
>> email in there I simply add to my BBDB database, and the next time it
>> will go into my Inbox?

David> That's not a great way to hunt for spam

I agree, however BBDB can still be very helpfull.

What I do is that I split mail into various mailinglist folders and
then I have two folders for the rest.

One folder is for personal mail and I use the BBDB for that. If the
sender has an entry in BBDB, the mail goes to "personal", otherwise
it goes to "misc". This means that I get all important mail separated
from the rest with all the spam winding up in "misc" (and the mailing
list folders).


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Re: Fight spam with BBDB database?

[Paul Johnson]

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Richard Wellum <rwellum@cisco.com> writes:

> David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> writes:
>
> It looks cool - but my idea behind using BBDB was for the simplicity -
> this is just too complicated.

How so?  You just put that in your .gnus.el and let it fly...simple
copy, paste, restart gnus...

-- 
Paul Johnson
<baloo@ursine.ca>
Linux.  You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.

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