From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17537 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: newbie spam filtering with gnus Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:53:36 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87zj6r8npr.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87ego44m0v.fsf@stevenarntson.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427928611 20129 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2015 22:50:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 22:50:11 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 02 00:50:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YdRSX-0004iP-VQ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:50:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdRSX-0006pc-Cc for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 18:50:05 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:HiayTHly5OnWVElF4pY4chIR4HQ= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:88665 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17537 Archived-At: Enrico Schumann writes: > When I used POP some years ago, what worked out of > the box for me was using SpamAssassin as an external > programme (spamc) during splitting, as described in > the manual: I also use POP and I don't get that many spams: those I get I am able to KILL which is helpful as they do come back [1]. Are you saying POP compared to IMAP is more susceptible to spam? Those are protocols that deal with the client fetch of mail from the server. IMAP is more advanced, and so more complicated, but I always thought them to be mere protocols - defining the message syntax as well as the order and meaning of exchanges (e.g., handshakes and so on) in different situations, with no implications as to anti-spam. Or do you mean that particular methods, e.g. SpamAssassin which you mention, only works with POP? If you get a lot of spam, perhaps it is easier and more efficient to just get a new e-mail address which is a bit unintuitive and which you never submit to web services or publish verbatim on pages or in mails? For example, I always mention my address as embe8573 AT&T student DOS uu DOS se I don't know if that is clever but considering I have a home page with that handle and that all addresses are constructed according to that pattern, and besides the amount of communication and the width of my public interface, I'd say something must be working as again, I don't get much spam. [1] http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/gnus/lamer.el -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573