On Thu, 2 May 2013, James Harper <[email protected]> wrote:
> . Never use a Junk Mail folder. Either deliver the email to the inbox or
> don't accept it (maybe causing the sender to get an NDR, but that's the
> responsibility of the sending server). This requires filtering at SMTP
> time but that's how I do it anyway.

I agree.  I currently only run one server with a junk folder (as far as I 
recall), and that is a "pending" folder for mail which has a challenge-
response message sent out (not my choice, I'm just paid to do sysadmin work).

> . Use greylisting. I wrote my own here that has some smarts about trusting
> domains (eg bigpond) once a certain number of senders have been seen. I
> used to greylist for an hour but only 15 minutes now, and only for email
> with a spamassassin score above some threshold. The idea being that by
> waiting a bit the sender may get blacklisted in that time if I am the
> recipient of a new spam run.

Sounds nice, can you release it under the GPL?


One problem with statistical anti-spam measures is users who blindly put their 
"spam" into it as training without review.  So when (not if) a legitimate 
message is classified as spam the statistical system is trained to do that 
again...

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