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Re: How to fight spam?



Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 
06:32:50PM -0400:
> On Tuesday, August 22 at 04:04 PM, quoth Boris Sobolev:
> > What are the tools and techiques for mutt to fight spam. Currently, 
> > I have procmail install. Basically, I have commercial e-mails in 
> > Spanish which I don;t read. Is that possible to filter those mail? 
> > If so, I'd like to know how. Any other suggestions? How do you 
> > people fight it?
> 
> If you're using procmail, you've got an excellent way too hook in 
> other spam-fighting tools. I'm a big fan of spamassassin, which can be 
> added to your procmail filter like so:
> 
>     :0 fw
>     | spamassassin
> 
>     :0 h
>     * ^X-Spam-Flag: Yes
>     /dev/null
> 
> Mutt has the ability to parse headers (like those generated by 
> spamassassin and most other anti-spam filters) and read out a "score" 
> that can then be used anywhere standard mutt patterns can be... but I 
> don't use this feature (procmail serves me very well here).

Or you might use spamc and have spamassassin running in daemon mode.

Paul

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