On Tue 26, Jan'10 at 3:01 PM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote:
Of course, there's a whole class of spam that uses the same sender and recipient addresses.
Yup. Never really makes it into my inbox because of spam filtering. Heck, it never makes it onto the mail server because most of it is rejected at the SMTP level.
I currently have 4 spam messages in my spam box for my main account from the last month. I will admit that this is a particularly low month. That domain has a catchall address where all addresses but about 5 go to me. I'm not famous or anything, but I have used the address/domain on the web since about 2001 for most purchases, mailing lists, a web site, etc. I'm not saying spam is not a problem, but rejecting it at the SMTP level goes a long way to making it better.
I don't take credit for the setup - I use Tuffmail and the default setting for spam rejection is pretty good.
And, there's also the problem that you might have several email aliases. Mulberry addresses (sorry) this problem by allowing you to list all email addresses that should be considered yours.
mutt does the same thing. Works fine. I have 5 such addresses listed, one of which is a regex that catches most of my list addresses.
And I don't really see any other way around it, unless there is a special *local* box that is where sent mail goes. But then it is only good for email that you send with that specific application on that specific folder. Which has problems as mentioned before.
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