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From: Jonathan Chocron <jonathan.chocron@××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Spam, spam, spam
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 00:13:31
Message-Id: 200605170140.32147.jonathan.chocron@free.fr
1 Le Mercredi 17 Mai 2006 01:03, JimD a écrit :
2 > Is there a good spam filter out there? One that is not a pain to setup
3 > and use?
4 >
5 > My current setup is postfix, procmail and bogofilter. Maybe I haven't
6 > trained bogofilter enough or something. After three weeks, I have yet
7 > to have one spam marked as spam. It gets marked unsure, for which I
8 > have procmail stick those in a maildir folder.
9 >
10 > I want something easy to setup and use. Right now I have a Spam
11 > maildir. Under that folder I have mark-bad, mark-good and unsure. I
12 > move email to mark-bad/mark-good as needed and have a cronjob that tells
13 > bogofilter to check those folders and update.
14 >
15 > What is really frustrating is that I keep getting the same spam in my
16 > inbox. Some viagra junk. I have told bogofilter it is spam about 10
17 > times in the last 2 weeks.
18 >
19 > So, what is a good _home user_ setup? I don't want to use the built-in
20 > junk filter of Thunderbird because I get my emails over IMAP from
21 > different locations, so I want 1 spam solution.
22 >
23 > Danka for any help :-)
24 >
25 > Jim
26 > --
27 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
28 > There's no place like 127.0.0.1
29 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
30 > JimD
31 > Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol
32
33 I'd go with spamassassin. It is quite easy to set up, features auto-learning,
34 and is very efficient (Ever since I turned it on, I haven't got a single
35 spam, and I have so few false positive that I just tell it to trash the mail
36 it marks as spam).
37
38 If I may suggest two things :
39 - Use spamassassin through its daemon (spamd), it's faster.
40 - You should consider dropping procmail in favour of courier-maildrop, since
41 you seem to be using courier-imap. I find it more flexible and better
42 integrated with the imap server.
43
44 -- Jonathan
45
46 (Note : that is just a suggestion, I am not looking to start a flamewar or
47 anything. I have used procmail for years and was very happy with it !)
48
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Re: [gentoo-user] Spam, spam, spam Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>