I do have SpamAssassin installed (prolly not the latest of the latest, I'll make sure I upgrade it. =), as well as reverse DNS lookups, but I still get tons of spam that gets through. Also, SpamAssassin is a bit too eager to mark stuff as spam to my liking, so I don't trust it 100%.
The thing is, my email address is -very- public, I get subscribed to tons of email lists, spam lists, hoax lists etc. by people that get pissed off at me when I don't give them the support answer they want. This has resulted in me getting about 1000 spams/hoaxes a week, as well as more virii than you can shake a stick at. What I totally love about bogofilter, is that if you show it a spam message once, it learns and adapts, catching the offending email next time it comes around. Regards, Erlend Simonsen On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 15:58, Tony Earnshaw wrote: > man, 2002-09-23 kl. 13:42 skrev Erlend Simonsen: > > > Seeing as I get well over 200 spam emails a day, naturally spam > > filtering is a pretty big thing for me. ;-) Has anyone considered adding > > support for bogofilter or one of the spin offs from that project to > > Evolution? > > > I'd love having a filtering rule that interfaced to bogofilter, as well > > as updating the filters statistics when I read an email or move it to a > > spam marked folder. > > <OT> > > I honestly can't understand this kind of wish. > > I run a Compaq El Cheapo dialup notebook (this machine) under Linux. > Consequently I have the opportunity of running my own smtp mail server, > pop3 server, Spamassassin, virus filter etc. etc on my notebook. > > Spam filtering is done at several levels by my smtp mailserver, which > (apart from other checks) routes all incoming mail (mailkicks from my > ISP) through Spamassassin 2.50 (newest of the new, bleeding edge). It > doesn't just do that, it has various checks through DNS reverse lookups, > RBL, system filter etc as checks against spam. > > The whole business of spam filtering is *so* specialized, that there is > no way a utility such as Evo could possibly do what these specialized > server utilities do. > > People who the great Creator has given the absolute privilege of being > able to run Unix/Linux on their mail machines ought to train themselves > to use that privilege correctly. > > All criticism of utilities such as Spamassassin, Spamcop etc have mostly > been solved by the time those criticisms have been uttered. Furthermore, > combatting spam isn't a question of relying on one single technique, but > of combining many, heterogeneous techniques - of which there are legion. > > </OT> > > Best, > > Tony > > -- > > Tony Earnshaw > > "Growing old" is compulsory, "growing up" is optional. > > e-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www: http://www.billy.demon.nl > gpg public key: http://www.billy.demon.nl/tonni.armor > > Telefoon: (+31) (0)172 530428 > Mobiel: (+31) (0)6 51153356 > > GPG Fingerprint = 3924 6BF8 A755 DE1A 4AD6 FA2B F7D7 6051 3BE7 B981 > 3BE7B981 > > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
