On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 4:10 pm, rikona wrote: > Hello Merlin, > > Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 6:33:44 AM, you wrote: > > MZ> my inbox had 82 messages in it, and only 4 of them were not > spam MZ> and/or viruses. > > Spamassassin can place the score either in the headers or as text > in the body. You might use this in your email client to filter the > spam to a 'spam' folder, to get it out of your inbox. I use two > folders, based on the score, with marginal spam and very likely > spam. I look at the marginal ones and DO occasionally find a false > positive (good email) there (usually from those who use fancy HTML > in email). > > This 'marginal' folder is becoming more and more necessary as > spammers try to avoid spam filters. It is getting harder and harder > to filter out spam. > > MZ> When I was using Outlook on WIN2K, I had Mailwasher going, > which I liked MZ> because I liked the idea of bounce messages going > to the sender of any MZ> messages I marked as spam. Not that I > think the spammers take a blind MZ> bit of notice... > > I wouldn't do this. It only wastes bandwidth. If you go through the > headers to find the true origin, and send a complaint to the ISP, > it might be worthwhile, but it's a lot of work (particularly since > many spammers try to hide). > > MZ> Is there something I can use to look at the headers and > MZ> delete/bounce them before I get them from my POP server? > > One of the reasons Spamassassin is so good is that it looks at the > body in detail. I'm not sure you could get good filtering on just > the headers.
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