Re: [PLUG] interesting solution to spam overload

["Austin Murphy" <austin.murphy@gmail.com>]

On 12/15/06, Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 08:46:44AM -0500, Austin Murphy wrote:
> > Does anyone have effective spam filtering and training done the
> > "UNIX Way" (small tools working together)?  It's easy enough to
> > stick a mail filter in front of your inbox, but it's not trivial to
> > setup a good ruleset or keep it up to date.
>
> Something does some envelope filtering before my machine, but I find
> that bogofilter is catching 200 emails per day as spam (essentially
> zero false positives) and misses 2-5 spams per day.  I'm ok with that.
>
> Part of my morning routine (er, script), in addition to popping up
> xkcd, phd comics, dilbert, the weather, some news sites, etc., runs
> "xterm -e mutt -f bogofilter-...", the cull of the past day or so of
> putative spam, which I scan and reality check.  Doing it once a day
> takes less than a minute, which proves manageable and allows me to say
> "essentially zero false positives."

Does this train bogofilter?

How do you identify a random message as spam?

Austin
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