2005/11/14, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Adam Hardy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I googled for this extensively and come up with nothing - I'm looking > > for a hard-core spam blacklist to remove the spam from my POP3 mailbox > > before I download it.
[...] > apt-cache show mailfilter > > Removes spam at the server so you don't have to download it. Uses > Allow, Deny, Scoring regex rules to mark spam for deletion. > > There is also a new spinoff called murx which allows more options in the > 'spam' filtering. A debian package is available <murx.sourceforge.net>. I used to do that. But I found it easier to just filter it at the server level. This can be done by getting an email service (paid or free) that allows you to set up filters that sends spam direct to the Trash or marks it as, well, spam. This of course assumes that the email service allows you pop access. I consider this to be one of GMail Beta's killer features, compared to other popular freemail accounts (e.g. Yahoo and Hotmail). Of course, you do need a GMail invite (but practically everyone knows a grand uncle or distant cousin with invites to spare). Or you could sign up for the paid version of Yahoo, etc. Another trick I use is to enable mail forwarding across as many as six email accounts. Each email account has its own set of filters, so that at each iteration (Account 1 forwards to Account 2, which forwards to Account 3, etc.), more and more spam is removed. This also allows me to post at a mailing list using Account 1 (which is exposed to the world) and read my post at Account 6 (more or less private). -- Albert Einstein: Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.
