Has anyone come up with an effective filter for detecting Nigerian spam, much of which these days doesn't come from Nigeria? Anything that would work with kmail? Paul
On Fri March 25 2005 6:06 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Has anyone come up with an effective filter for detecting Nigerian spam, much of which these days doesn't come from Nigeria? Anything that would work with kmail?
'Gave up trying. :) Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 18:06 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Has anyone come up with an effective filter for detecting Nigerian spam, much of which these days doesn't come from Nigeria? Anything that would work with kmail?
If you setup your email to use spamassassin it should weed out most of those emails. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:06:24 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote
Has anyone come up with an effective filter for detecting Nigerian spam, much of which these days doesn't come from Nigeria? Anything that would work with kmail?
spamassassin does this wonderfully. ernest.
Paul
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On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 05:17 am, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:06:24 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote
Has anyone come up with an effective filter for detecting Nigerian spam, much of which these days doesn't come from Nigeria? Anything that would work with kmail?
spamassassin does this wonderfully.
Indeed. Even for those that it didn't originally catch, I found that it could be "trained" to recognise them using its learning capability quite quickly. M -- "It's the small gaps between the rain that count, and learning how to live amongst them." -- Jeff Noon
On Friday 25 March 2005 05:06 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Has anyone come up with an effective filter for detecting Nigerian spam, much of which these days doesn't come from Nigeria? Anything that would work with kmail?
If SpamAssassin doesn't work (set up a filter that does "pipe through" spamassassin, make sure "stop processing here" is unchecked, and then add another filter *after* the "pipe filter" to look as the X-Spam-Status header), then your subsequent Google/etc. searches might have better luck using the term "419" than "Nigerian spam". Those are called 419 scams because of the section of the Nigerian laws that applies. --Danny, who personally would use fetchmail + procmail to call spamassin, rather than kMail, but that's largely just a personal preference
On Friday 25 March 2005 15:06, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Has anyone come up with an effective filter for detecting Nigerian spam, much of which these days doesn't come from Nigeria? Anything that would work with kmail?
I am using Bogofilter with KMail, and it detect about 70% of Nigerian SPAM. -- Mirko
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