On 1/1/2014 2:36 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote: > 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 > I believe that I said earlier that I have several email accounts. Three are company provided. One for 'general', one for my secretary, and one for my foreman. Those three are all encrypted and never get any spam. I have another for friends and family. Also encrypted too. I have another that I use for online purchases. And I have the one that I use for mailing lists and general online 'stuff'. That one, this one, is the only one that ever gets any spam. Gmail catches most of them. 5-10 per month. Last year I only had a total of about 100 and only one got all the way to me. Any one that get 'hundreds and hundreds a month', IMHO, is doing some very wrongly. -- David -- 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
