Re: [Evolution] Bogofilter? The fight against spam continues...

[Erlend Simonsen <fudge planetarion com>]

I do have SpamAssassin installed (prolly not the latest of the latest,
I'll make sure I upgrade it. =), as well as reverse DNS lookups, but I
still get tons of spam that gets through. Also, SpamAssassin is a bit
too eager to mark stuff as spam to my liking, so I don't trust it 100%.

The thing is, my email address is -very- public, I get subscribed to
tons of email lists, spam lists, hoax lists etc. by people that get
pissed off at me when I don't give them the support answer they want.
This has resulted in me getting about 1000 spams/hoaxes a week, as well
as more virii than you can shake a stick at.

What I totally love about bogofilter, is that if you show it a spam
message once, it learns and adapts, catching the offending email next
time it comes around. 

Regards,
Erlend Simonsen

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 15:58, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> man, 2002-09-23 kl. 13:42 skrev Erlend Simonsen:
>
> > Seeing as I get well over 200 spam emails a day, naturally spam
> > filtering is a pretty big thing for me. ;-) Has anyone considered adding
> > support for bogofilter or one of the spin offs from that project to
> > Evolution?
>
> > I'd love having a filtering rule that interfaced to bogofilter, as well
> > as updating the filters statistics when I read an email or move it to a
> > spam marked folder. 
>
> <OT>
>
> I honestly can't understand this kind of wish.
>
> I run a Compaq El Cheapo dialup notebook (this machine) under Linux.
> Consequently I have the opportunity of running my own smtp mail server,
> pop3 server, Spamassassin, virus filter etc. etc on my notebook.
>
> Spam filtering is done at several levels by my smtp mailserver, which
> (apart from other checks) routes all incoming mail (mailkicks from my
> ISP) through Spamassassin 2.50 (newest of the new, bleeding edge). It
> doesn't just do that, it has various checks through DNS reverse lookups,
> RBL, system filter etc as checks against spam.
>
> The whole business of spam filtering is *so* specialized, that there is
> no way a utility such as Evo could possibly do what these specialized
> server utilities do.
>
> People who the great Creator has given the absolute privilege of being
> able to run Unix/Linux on their mail machines ought to train themselves
> to use that privilege correctly.
>
> All criticism of utilities such as Spamassassin, Spamcop etc have mostly
> been solved by the time those criticisms have been uttered. Furthermore,
> combatting spam isn't a question of relying on one single technique, but
> of combining many, heterogeneous techniques - of which there are legion.
>
> </OT>
>
> Best,
>
> Tony
>
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