SpamAssassin and Thunderbird as united forces
Posted Mar 4, 2006 7:38 UTC (Sat) by
dh (subscriber, #153)
Parent article:
A grumpy editor's bayesian followup
Hi all,
for more than three years, I use SpamAssassin and Thunderbird as a team to
keep all the spam away from me. SpamAssassin investigates all mails while
they are delivered. Everything marked as spam goes straight into the trash
can. Ramdom checks have never found false positives, SpamAssassin is
really impressive in this way.
Mails which managed to reach my inbox, however, are checked a second time
by Thunderbird. Everything found to be spam is moved into a special
directory. I review that one from time to time as Thunderbird tends to
produce false positives on a low rate. After cleaning that folder, I use
it to train SpamAssassin using "sa-learn".
My experiences with this setup are very good. Normally, I do only see two
or three spam mails per day while several hundreds of them are filtered
and gone with the wind without bothering me. Furthermore, I am quite
confident that I never missed a non-spam mail (even though once or twice,
they were catched by Thunderbird in the first place).
Best regards,
Dirk
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