On 2016-07-24 15:32, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 07/24/2016 08:38 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Ah, I see. Yes, I remember reading about this years ago, when I started setting it up. No, I don't bother, I trigger on yes/no, which is at the '5' score?
Then I review the spam folder(s) to see if some "subject" line looks like not spam to verify.
I agree with Philip when he says that categorization is a good tool:
The point is that I can check the lower-scored files for any false positives more easily since they will be smaller than without the sorting. I also tend to check the higher scored files less often.
The higher scored one are more likely to be blacklist (file as /dev/null) candidates. Yes, anything over 1,000 :-)
When you get about one spam mail per day, it is pointless :-) I'm more interested to know to which account it was sent, so I classify on that (can't rely on the "To:" header).
Nowdays i get very little spam, anyway. Gmail does a very good job. My ISP does a nosy job, because it refuses and deletes spam without asking.
I think GMail is nosy, more so than I want to deal with.
Yes.
I have about 40 email addresses in use,most of them single purpose, perhaps on specific mailing lists or groups of vendors. My @antonaylward ISP, Dreamhost, allows me (effectively) unlimited email addresses :-) It makes filtering and hence automation so much easier!
It also means that if a vendor group turn Spammy I can simply cancel that email address.
Most of the lists I'm on are closed and the archives are not publicly accessible. This is an exception to that latter one, and I get 4-5 piec3s of non-list related mail from spammers or peole making other solicitations each month.
However one address I've had since the start of the 1990s and I get about 80-200 pieces of spam there EACH DAY! My tuned Procmail+Spamassassin has been taking care of that very well until recently. Now, thank you, that gap has been closed.
Not something we can all do ;-)
I thought you had a method to, in user prefs, define a score for an address, instead of an absolute "all email from this address is spam", giving a 999 score.
Yes, you can, but some sites don't have real users, that are spam only or advertising only. Do you really want email from casinos, non-prescription pharmaceuticals, sex slavers?
No. But sometimes one can get a spam post apparently from an address that I have whitelisted, because the spammer happened to use that address (faked). So I don't want the white list to be absolute. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)