Well, depending on your setup... What we do is use an IMAP server, but the vast majority of our users are POP3. So, anybody who wants auto deletion or server side filtering gets some mojo applied to their account, so that tagged spam winds up in the IMAP trash folder. Everything in that folder gets deleted when it hits one week old.
Pros: They never see it if they don't want to, but it's easily accessable from webmail if they ever do want to see it. It doesn't pile up too much. Cons: Some people get a *lot* of spam in a week. Still, spam tends to be relatively small. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kai MacTane Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:51 PM To: spamassassin list Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Configure to delete messages At 8/20/03 09:46 AM , Yorkshire Dave wrote: >If someone instructed me to /dev/null anything marked as spam, and all >attempts to explain why that was bad had failed, i think a deliberate >typo would see it all piling up in a mailbox called .dev.null ready for >when they realise they made a mistake :) Ooooooh... I like the "typo" solution. Keep in mind, of course, that it's possible that the only way to get them to realize they've made a mistake is to *show them* the contents of .dev.null. (Especially if you've set up your filtering criteria such that they'll be almost certain to give a few critical FPs at the same time...) Until they see: "Hey, there's mail from my wife in there!", they may very well be thinking "Only spam goes into the spam black-hole." Just like most people think that "only porn sites get blocked by porn filters". --Kai MacTane ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "I looked Death in the face last night,/I saw him in a mirror, And he simply smiled,/He told me not to worry: He told me just to take my time." --Oingo Boingo, "We Close Our Eyes" ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. Did you know that Dice has over 25,000 tech jobs available today? From careers in IT to Engineering to Tech Sales, Dice has tech jobs from the best hiring companies. http://www.dice.com/index.epl?rel_code=104 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. Did you know that Dice has over 25,000 tech jobs available today? From careers in IT to Engineering to Tech Sales, Dice has tech jobs from the best hiring companies. http://www.dice.com/index.epl?rel_code=104 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
