On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:20:08 +0800, Wayne Topa wrote: > Brian Walker([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:20:24 +0800, John Hasler wrote: >> >> As for getting spamassassin installed, I will fumble a bit in the dark, >> despite the instructions, and scream for help in a bit. This flood of >> spam I have recently been getting amounts to 20MB a day. And my ISP >> could not give a flying fsck. >> >> Thanks for the reference Klaus, to spamassassin and Kmail. >> >> > I would suggest installing mailfilter, for a start. With it you can > remove the MS junk at the pop server and never download it. That would > reduce the majority of the spam. > > see the archives an how this is done. Its fast, and easy. > > As an example here is what mailfilter did to spam in the last 4 hours. > > Mail on Server downloaded > 8 AM 235 135 > 9 AM 33 18 > 10 AM 49 36 > 11 AM 39 28 > > My filters did pick up 11 spam messages from what was downloaded. Of > those spamassassin and other procmail filters caught all but 1 and > sa-learn ahould take care og that one in the future. > > :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) > Wayne
Done! Many thanks Wayne :) Can I add a line to procmail to prefilter spam with mailfilter, before letting spamassassin get to work? What about the line to add to delete swen messages? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
