On 7/31/06, Tanner Lovelace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .
I talked to someone last year who had setup a rule in procmail that first checked for a special tag in the mail. If it was there, it passed the mail onto the rest of the rules. If it wasn't there, it added it and then bounced it to his GMail account. Over at gmail, he had a filter that just forwarded e-mail back to his e-mail address. Even with forwarding, gmail still runs e-mail through its spam filter. The gmail spam filter is just about the best I've seen.
Neat trick! I've always been pretty impressed by gmail's spam filtering. I suspect that it's partially using social networking in part, so that when I click on the report as spam, button it modifies the global filter and perhaps even moves copies of the same e-mail for other users who haven't seen it yet. I must say that gmail seems to have gotten a little less efficient though, it seems to let a few spams slip by every day not. It seems to have a soft spot for nigerian, and "your e-mail has won the lottery!" spam. I also did a quick scan of my accumulated spam on gmail this morning (1200+ messages), and found 1 false positive. I think that this is the first false positive I've seen on gmail, although it was a product announcement from a company I'm interested in, so I can understand how it got clogged in the filter. -- Rick DeNatale IPMS/USA Region 12 Coordinator http://ipmsr12.denhaven2.com/ Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
