Anti-spam

Feb. 18th, 2006 07:09 pm
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I've just discovered that (a) Thunderbird has whitelisting, and won't make as spam anything from people in my address book and (b) I can tell it to automatically move any email from people _not_ in my address book into a separate 'unrecognised' folder.

I've now got three filters set up:
1) Everything with ****SPAM**** in the subject line gets junked (that's put there by SpamAssassin on the server, if it scores over 5 - I haven't noticed any false positives in over a year).
2) Everything from LJ gets stuck into the LJ folder.
3) Everything not in my address book gets dumped into "Unrecognised".

This should leave my inbox for things from people I know.

Now, if only there was a way to run these filters intermittently, so that when I check my email from the web client or my phone it's already been filtered, I'd be happy.

Date: 2006-02-18 07:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com
Run your own mailserver - IMF installed on my Exchange server gets rid of most of my spam before it hits any of my devices or webmail.

It's got so good that I've actually cancelled my Cloudmark subscription.

Date: 2006-02-18 09:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com
Running things your self isn't such a bad way to do things - our server is a copy of SBS2003 running on a home-assembled Athlon Shuttle box.

It does the job in more ways than one - we have a central file store, we have a mail server that filters our mail before it gets to the client, we have web mail (with phone synchronisation to Blackberry and Windows mobile), and we have a single place to keep all our MP3s.

We also have a box we can write about, which helps!

Date: 2006-02-18 09:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com
Ah, no - experimental stuff goes in VMs - what I meant was we can write about day-to-day server administration.

Date: 2006-02-18 10:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] azalemeth.livejournal.com
I too run my own server(s), and I do find it incredibly useful. I don't actually run email for me - mainly due to a) lack of a good internet connection, and b) lack of willing to spend dosh on getting an FQDN. Spam assassin is good; we use it at "work", and I've found it more accurate - and, where not, erring on the right side of caution - than the competition.

And my configuration in Apple's Mail is almost exactly the same - 'cept "Unrecognised" is "!lj" :).

Date: 2006-02-18 10:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khbrown.livejournal.com
Have you a URL to how to set this up - I'm running Thunderbird as well, but find my ISP's auto spam filtering next to useless as it gets a lot of false positives.

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