Re: How long does Thunderbird for Linux take to learn about junk?

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 05/12/05 

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 23:03:42 +0200

In comp.os.linux.misc Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer@exit109.com>:
> Michael Heiming wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.misc Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer@exit109.com>:

[ fight spam using SpamAssassin ]

> I get most of my e-mail through my ISP, and they run SpamAssassin with some
> rules they have devised. They also have a virus detector that would protect
> me if I were to run Windows. The ISP maintains an e-mail account for me as
> part of their service. I read this account with Thunderbird, and that is
> where the filtering I assume is in TB needs training.

> I also run sendmail on my machine, and use dnsbl spam filtering with spamcop
> and mail-abuse.com and a long list of bad guys and bad IP address blocks.
> This part works pretty well.

> My ISP cannot run those dnsbl type filters since some of their clients (the
> bigger ones) want all e-mail sent to them for them to filter themselves.
> Hence the need for MUA filtering. I have not looked into getting fetchmail
> to get the stuff locally and finding out how to make Thunderbird pick it up,
> but it is probably possible. I need something better than mutt to look at a
> lot of the stuff I get on my better-known e-mail account.

Ah, see your ISP can't/hasn't got much out of SA, which seems to
suggest to download your share via fetchmail running SA locally,
the only downside you need to download the whole crap. Removed
the default catch all account from my domain ages ago, after spam
raised to >1000/day, where it began to suck bandwidth.;(

Prefer to drop the crap directly to some file which is zeroed
each night from cron, seldom look at it. Annoying enough to have
to spend once in a while a few minutes upgrading SA. Any crap
that gets through comes into a special Mozilla mail folder, where
another cron job trainees bayes and reports the crap to razor.

This way, it was possible to reduce the amount of time you need
to spend fighting spam unless you want to give up your mail
account and hope the new one doesn't get contaminated as badly as
the one you are using right now in no time.
   

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