Comments on: See you later, spam! http://www.joeyday.com/2007/03/22/see-you-later-spam An exercise in critical thinking and writing by Joey Day Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:58:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joey http://www.joeyday.com/2007/03/22/see-you-later-spam/comment-page-1#comment-28717 Joey Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:46:03 +0000 http://www.joeyday.com/2007/03/22/see-you-later-spam#comment-28717 I've never used SpamAssassin. I've known it was on the server the whole time but I guess I always assumed it would throw the mail away before I saw it, and I like to skim through my junk mail before it's deleted just in case something bad goes in there. Now that I've looked into exactly how SpamAssassin works, I've gone ahead and enabled it. I have it configured so it adds a junk-identifying header and passes the mail through, and I've configured Thunderbird to trust the header added by SpamAssassin. I can still skim through my junk folder for my own peace of mind, but now hopefully this will notch up the accuracy of my whole filtering scheme. Thanks for the suggestion, Tom. As an aside, I nuked my catch-all not because I felt my current spam filtering wasn't meeting expectations---on the contrary, Thunderbird's bayesian filter is very accurate---but more so to cut off the sheer volume of junk I was receiving. I’ve never used SpamAssassin. I’ve known it was on the server the whole time but I guess I always assumed it would throw the mail away before I saw it, and I like to skim through my junk mail before it’s deleted just in case something bad goes in there.

Now that I’ve looked into exactly how SpamAssassin works, I’ve gone ahead and enabled it. I have it configured so it adds a junk-identifying header and passes the mail through, and I’ve configured Thunderbird to trust the header added by SpamAssassin. I can still skim through my junk folder for my own peace of mind, but now hopefully this will notch up the accuracy of my whole filtering scheme. Thanks for the suggestion, Tom.

As an aside, I nuked my catch-all not because I felt my current spam filtering wasn’t meeting expectations—on the contrary, Thunderbird’s bayesian filter is very accurate—but more so to cut off the sheer volume of junk I was receiving.

]]> By: Tom http://www.joeyday.com/2007/03/22/see-you-later-spam/comment-page-1#comment-28585 Tom Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:13:58 +0000 http://www.joeyday.com/2007/03/22/see-you-later-spam#comment-28585 Did you ever try activating <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpamAssassin" rel="nofollow">SpamAssassin</a>? It's one of the most effective spam filters out there and it's already installed on the server. You just have to <a href="http://joeyday.com:2082/frontend/bluelagoon/mail/spam.html" rel="nofollow">enable and configure it</a> via cPanel. Did you ever try activating SpamAssassin? It’s one of the most effective spam filters out there and it’s already installed on the server. You just have to enable and configure it via cPanel.

]]> By: Hugh http://www.joeyday.com/2007/03/22/see-you-later-spam/comment-page-1#comment-28513 Hugh Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:59:28 +0000 http://www.joeyday.com/2007/03/22/see-you-later-spam#comment-28513 Great idea! Great idea!

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