Re: [Evolution] Spam Filter

[John Harlow <jharlow bravepoint com>]

I've built a pretty thorough set of spam filters using the evolution
filters. On average, 2 pieces of spam get thru a day. My spam folder
gets about 400 pieces a day.

My filters are organized such that my list subscriptions are sorted into
the appropriate mailboxes, followed by mail from select friends and
family which goes into a mailbox, followed by mail from select domains
that I want mail from. Then my porn and spam filters take over and if it
meets their criteria, it goes into a spam folder. Very little that
shouldn't make it thru does. Once in a while a genuine email goes in
there (about once a day) so I peruse it periodically.

John


On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 21:24, Jim Meyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 12:06, Peter Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 14:33, Patrick J. Doland wrote:
> > > Howdy-
> > >
> > > Does anyone have an relatively effective set of filter rules to reduce
> > > spam with Evolution? 
> >
> > The fad with the kids is to use SpamAssassin, it's supposed to be very
> > effective. You can't really hook it up into Evolution unless you're
> > using 1.1 and feeling a bit adventurous, but if that's not a problem,
> > I'd recommend it (though not having used it myself.)
>
> To extend that answer a bit:
>
> I run fetchmail to get my email from various and sundry places to my
> local box; I have a ~/.procmailrc to engage SpamAssassin in checking
> each mail as fetchmail gets it. I have those marked as spam into a Spam
> mbox; I comb it thru once every day or so for titles or senders which
> may have been false positives.
>
> It's a happy thing.
>
> --j
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