On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 02:06:41PM -0500, David wrote: > Like all spam filters, that I know of, you have to train it. You have to > mark emails as spam that you consider spam. Yep. > Spam Assassin would be the same way I would think. I do not know of any > spam filter program that already knows what email that *you* consider to > be spam. Like virus scanners they look for patterns. Yes. It learns pretty quickly; feed it the "probably spam" and "almost certainly" spam files at first; eventually all you'll have to add is what has slipped through. If you don't want to get into system-wide spam scanning, and/or don't want to get into the complexities of Spam Assassin, you can get a pretty good Baysean filter with PopFILE for Linux. > As for TBird message filters. Those are designed to move messages that > you want from your inbox to various folders. This message, for me, goes > to <account_name>/Inbox/Fedora/Users You often use the message filter in conjunction with your anti-spam solution--e.g., for PopFILE, have it modify the Subject line to include the string "[spam]", and then filter on that. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
