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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.
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.
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Date: 2006-02-18 07:23 pm (UTC)It's got so good that I've actually cancelled my Cloudmark subscription.
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Date: 2006-02-18 07:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 09:05 pm (UTC)I'm occasionally tempted to run my own server, but I can't actually be bothered spending that amount of time running hardware/software when other people will do it fairly cheaply.
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Date: 2006-02-18 09:15 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: 2006-02-18 09:22 pm (UTC)<HanSolo>You're braver than I thought</HanSolo>
If it was just me I'd be tempted to give it a go - but I share a mail server with my family, and I don't fancy explaining to them that I installed Spam-Eater++ and it ate all their mail.
Maybe when I'm rich, famous and spending more time at home.
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Date: 2006-02-18 09:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 10:38 pm (UTC)And my configuration in Apple's Mail is almost exactly the same - 'cept "Unrecognised" is "!lj" :).
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Date: 2006-02-18 10:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-19 02:54 am (UTC)New
Give it a name.
Set the first combo box to "Sender" and the second to "isn't in my address book" and tell it where to put things that match that.
Also:
Tools->Junk Mail Controls
Tell it to White List things in your address book
Move incoming messages mark as junk into a separate folder
Go the the Adaptive Filter tab, and make sure it's on.
For a while, you'll need to correct whether mails are spam or not, but it learns fairly quickly.