Too much spam

[Ed lawson]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:55:06 -0500
M D L <41magnum at liberty.eprci.com> wrote:

> I've been getting too much spam lately.  I'm wondering if there is
> anything I can do about it?  I've tried using the spamassassin plugin
> for claws mail, but that isn't catching it. 

YMMV, but I have used Claws with spamassassin plugin with great
results.  Very, very seldom will a spam message not be filtered out and
I have four active email accounts with at hundreds of emails a day.
For example your message was one of 12 when mail was last downloaded
(which is done every 10 minutes) and the other eleven were put
(properly) in spam folder.

I fear to tread as not a technical person, but this is my approach:

1.  I set required score at 3.5
2.  I make sure the bayes filtering/learning is enabled
3.  I have subject header rewritten to *******SPAM********
4.  I have all messages with SPAM in subject header put in
Spam-Infected folder.  This way I can check on what is being declared
spam..if I care to.  The contents of spam folder is deleted when program
is closed.
5.  Finally,  at least on Debian based systems the Spamassassin daemon
is not enabled by default when installed so you need to edit the entry
in the /etc/default folder.

Maybe that is all obvious and if so I apologise.  It sjust how I do it
and it works for me.



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