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Mail filtering with SpamAssassin

Mail filtering with SpamAssassin

Posted Oct 13, 2005 13:14 UTC (Thu) by shane (subscriber, #3335)
In reply to: Mail filtering in Thunderbird 1.5 by thomask
Parent article: Mail filtering in Thunderbird 1.5

I find that using SpamAssassin + procmail is good, because spam determination is not "yes/no". I refile things that are definately spam (lots of SpamAssassin points) into a "junk" folder, and things that are probably spam (a few SpamAssassin points) into a "junk-check" folder. I look at the contents of "junk-check" every week or so.

In the past 2 years or so, I have had something like 2 false positives in the "junk-check", and none in the "junk".

This system saved a lot of time I was wasting looking at spam.


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