Dear List Members, Having lost a lot of important business mail, I am enquiring as to whether members have found a successful way of dealing with 'junk'. Could it be that 'Evolution' is being selective and not including some mail, or has my enthusiasm for deletion got the better of me! Very fortunately I also have Mutt on board and that which was lost, was collected. Has anyone tryed Spamassasin or other utility for selecting out junk and more importantly does it work. Thank you for your time. Malcolm Candlish.
Mozilla's mail-client is very very good at this. Malcolm Candlish wrote:
Dear List Members,
Having lost a lot of important business mail, I am enquiring as to whether members have found a successful way of dealing with 'junk'. Could it be that 'Evolution' is being selective and not including some mail, or has my enthusiasm for deletion got the better of me!
Very fortunately I also have Mutt on board and that which was lost, was collected.
Has anyone tryed Spamassasin or other utility for selecting out junk and more importantly does it work.
Thank you for your time.
Malcolm Candlish.
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I use spamassassin with great success. I combined it with procmail and every mail with a spam hit of over 10 is being deleted without ever hitting my mail program. Spam with lower hitcount will be tagged and filtered into a seperate folder. I looked at my logfiiles and managed to figure out, that now I get 2 Spam mails per day instead of 70. from the filtered "68" spam mails I have to review 5 or six manually. All the others never get through to my eyes. But I have to say that I put the 2 spam mails per day which are not detected into spamassassins sa-learn tool to train my bayes filter with them. So your milage may vary. Greets, Daniel Am Mittwoch, 27. August 2003 17:55 schrieb Malcolm Candlish:
Dear List Members,
Having lost a lot of important business mail, I am enquiring as to whether members have found a successful way of dealing with 'junk'. Could it be that 'Evolution' is being selective and not including some mail, or has my enthusiasm for deletion got the better of me!
Very fortunately I also have Mutt on board and that which was lost, was collected.
Has anyone tryed Spamassasin or other utility for selecting out junk and more importantly does it work.
Thank you for your time.
Malcolm Candlish.
On Wed August 27 2003 17:28, Daniel Eckl wrote:
I use spamassassin with great success. I combined it with procmail and every mail with a spam hit of over 10 is being deleted without ever hitting my mail program. Spam with lower hitcount will be tagged and filtered into a seperate folder.
Do SuSE have available an rpm of spamassassin? I'm using 8.2 Home and it's not on the cd. Being a relative newbie I downloaded the tar file from www.spam..etc but that requires perl modules to be installed as well which is a new learning curve for me. Thanks Jim MacLeod
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2003 13:31 schrieb Jim MacLeod:
Do SuSE have available an rpm of spamassassin? I'm using 8.2 Home and it's not on the cd. Being a relative newbie I downloaded the tar file from www.spam..etc but that requires perl modules to be installed as well which is a new learning curve for me.
I only have SuSE 8.2 Pro, it comes with SpamAssassin on CD 4. However, I first installed SpamAssassin when I was running SuSE 8.0 and I completely installed it using CPAN (perl). And I never spoke perl before. And I don't speak perl now ;-). It wasn't easy, but the result was worth all the learning. Check the INSTALL file that comes with SpamAssassin. Most of the required perl modules come with SuSE 8.2 (at least in the Pro version). If you don't have them on your CDs, most modules can be installed using perl -MCPAN -e shell [as root] o conf prerequisites_policy ask install <module name> install <next module> quit [to exit perl] eg. install ExtUtils::MakeMaker install File::Spec ... install Mail::SpamAssassin Ciao, Oliver -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TfaF2xKg64Yci0URAtgmAJ9iZF7whpnGUVKmc7MSXboCXtsJAwCfcIbk +wW+5Nb83uk8QHXcizT5rhc= =EL0z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2003 13:31 schrieb Jim MacLeod:
On Wed August 27 2003 17:28, Daniel Eckl wrote:
I use spamassassin with great success. I combined it with procmail and every mail with a spam hit of over 10 is being deleted without ever hitting my mail program. Spam with lower hitcount will be tagged and filtered into a seperate folder.
Do SuSE have available an rpm of spamassassin? I'm using 8.2 Home and it's not on the cd. Being a relative newbie I downloaded the tar file from www.spam..etc but that requires perl modules to be installed as well which is a new learning curve for me. Thanks Jim MacLeod
Try this one: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/current/suse/i586/spamassassin-2.50-14.i586.rpm Michael Eichstädt
Has anyone tryed Spamassasin or other utility for selecting out junk and more importantly does it work.
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On Wednesday 27 August 2003 18:55, Malcolm Candlish wrote:
Dear List Members,
Having lost a lot of important business mail, I am enquiring as to whether members have found a successful way of dealing with 'junk'. Could it be that 'Evolution' is being selective and not including some mail, or has my enthusiasm for deletion got the better of me!
Very fortunately I also have Mutt on board and that which was lost, was collected.
Has anyone tryed Spamassasin or other utility for selecting out junk and more importantly does it work.
Hi! I am using Spamassasin: it does quite a good job. Here is how one can make it work with kmail http://www.softwaredesign.co.uk/Information.SpamFilters.html#SpamAssassin It should be a similar procedure for Evolution. br /radu
Thank you for your time.
Malcolm Candlish.
On Sunday 28 September 2003 06:56, Radu Pirvu wrote:
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 18:55, Malcolm Candlish wrote:
Dear List Members,
Having lost a lot of important business mail, I am enquiring as to whether members have found a successful way of dealing with 'junk'. Could it be that 'Evolution' is being selective and not including some mail, or has my enthusiasm for deletion got the better of me!
I use kmail and created my own filters based on various "hints" as to what is "junk": specific words used in spam with "sexual" content, repeating spammer adresses, mailers used or faked by spammers (hotmail.com for instance). All these are redirected to the trash folder, I give a quick look for "lost" mails and it is flushes when I close the mail client. I'd say that I lost no important mail since I do this and get rid of 95% of spams. Thierry -- Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.
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