I don't track how many it captures. I'm say about 10 or so get through. I can set the rules more tightly, but then it marks mail as spam by mistake. That's not good, because then the mail that really isn't spam ends up in the spam folder and I have to go looking for it. It's a game of balance. I think I have it about right. I have not seen a mail marked as spam that shouldn't have been marked as spam in months now. And, my inbox only gets about 10 or so spams a day--out of literally hundreds of emails daily. Many, many more are caught and dumped without me seeing them--unless I choose to go look. Let me clarify that last point one more time. No mail is automatically thrown away. If spamassassin marks it as spam, it gets put in a special folder called spam and it is marked for deletion, the 'd' flag. When the day comes that I want to look in that folder, for whatever reason, all this mail is sitting there. When I leave that folder, it's all finally thrown out--unless I've first removed the 'd' flag on some particular message. Sina Bahram writes: > Hi janina, > > Do you mean it captures 10 to 12 spam messages a day, or that those are the > ones it misses? > > Take care, > Sina > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Janina Sajka > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:56 AM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: pine > > spamassassin is a great anti-spam bot. Only real downside, is that you do > have to receive the spam locally before spamassassin can dispose of it, but > it does work well. I see only about 10-12 spams a day, and I get several > hundred emails a day. > > My spamassassin is configured to throw spam into its own mail folder, > premarked for deletion. Ocassionally, I go in there and look to see if some > message was put there erroneously. I haven't found any errors in the past > months, and I'm always amazed at how many messages are there, when I do > look. And, when I leave the folder, they're all gone, because they've > already been marked for deletion, and my ua is set to delete on folder exit. > > randy turner writes: > > > > > > hi adam, > > well that sure explanes it > > sure wish they would tell you > > when they change something like that. > > i have been working on this for 4 days now. > > i could turn the spam feture off > > but i don't want all of that spam > > in my box. > > thanks for all of the help > > randy > > > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Adam Myrow wrote: > > > > >On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, randy turner wrote: > > > > > >>well i have to run get-mail first, > > >>then pine will send the message like it should does this give any > > >>one any ideas? > > > > > >It's a feature of your ISP which forces you to authenticate with your > > >POP server, and then, it will let you send mail for a limited time. > > >I think it's some sort of anti-spam measure, and unfortunately, > > >there's not much you can do about it except always check your mail > > >right before you send, or get another ISP. > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Speakup mailing list > > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com > > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org > > If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
