Adam Hardy wrote:
kamaraju kusumanchi on 17/11/05 13:10, wrote:
Matt Price wrote:
Hi folks,
Looking for a simple spam-control howto. I have tried setting up
bogofilter & spamassassin in the past & I've always run into trouble;
the process sometimes seems incredibly complex. Any help out there?
Matt
In order to get rid of all the spam that I get due to posting to
public archived mailing lists etc., I subscribe to mailing lists
through a gmail account. Gmail spam filtering is quite effective and
filters almost 95% of the spam. But the gmail web interface is not
that great (no thread view, cannot easily delete emails etc.,). So I
use pop functionality of gmail account and read these emails by using
thunderbird (you can also use other email clients such as mutt etc.,)
The above solution works 90% of the time but it is not the proper way
of spam filtering (I think). But hey! it works and I dont need to
spend time about reading thousands of lines of documentation.
That sounds like a pretty good filter rate. I'm relying on
Thunderbird's built-in spam filter which is meant to train itself but
it's no more than 60% to 70% effective. Adam
The thing is when thunderbird is used, only one user is training the
spam filter. But when you are using gmail, thousands of people who use
gmail will train their spam filter and hence it is more effective.
Further in my procedure given above, you are using two steps - gmail
spam filtering and then filtering in thunderbird. Works like a charm.
bye
raju
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