On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > >Hi folks, > > > >Looking for a simple spam-control howto. I have tried setting up > >bogofilter & spamassassin in the past & I've always run into trouble; > >the process sometimes seems incredibly complex. > >
spam howto ... gazillion options ... http://Linux-Sec.net/Mail/AntiSpam what is the critiria... - no false positive allowed ?? in which case, "guessing" if it is a filter based on scores probably will not work - some spam filters work better for say nigerian spam and porno spam but will bomb on say insurance spam and medical spam - what is your definition of spam ... which will depend on if its a single user or corp mail server where catalogues from dell is spam to you but not spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - who are you sending/receiving emails from will also dictate which spam filter you will need to be using - use different accounts for different purposes which will eliminate more than 1/2 or all of your spams on the other accts ( it's easier to deal with spam on one acct than on all accts ) simple solution ... - use the mta's built in antispam provisions ... ( a couple minuts to tweek/enable it .. - look at the examples ... ( from google/yahoo ) - this can get rid of 90% - 99% of your spams when you configured the built in filters properly which is non-trivial for your environment messy solutions - use any random spam filters from random.xyz.com - take your time to figure things out to see how it works - for the amt of time spent, its NOT worth the extra 5% or so of additional antispam filter it added vs the generic spam filters that is a matter of minutes to configure let-them-do-it-for-me - you get what you let them do or not do - you're stuck with their filters - there is no simple answer for "the spam solution" since it will be different for everybody - for me, one false positive ( a real email flagged as spam ) is completely unacceptable on work accounts c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]