9/21/2005
First off let me apologize to those that have written me e-mail and I have yet to respond. Prior to my move on August 1st I was pretty much able to keep up with e-mail within a few days. But since just before then, the amount of spam to my @gentoo.org address has increase exponentially. For example, in a 6 hr period that I was gone, I received 121 e-mails that Thunderbird thought was legit out of something in the upper 400s. That gives Thunderbird a terrible efficiency of about 75%. Now granted nearly half of that are e-mails in a completely different language, something I wish Thunderbird could learn and filter. Now extrapolate out the fact that I was offline for nearly 2 weeks during my move and that due to work and class I’m not checking my e-mail for at least 2 days a week, it’s added up to a horde of junk and legit mail that I need to wade through. Quite obviously this solution isn’t working.
I attempted to re-organize Thunderbird and have added tons of custom rules to sort the mail. This has helped me get caught up a little bit but not much. Though it still doesn’t filter the spam properly, sometimes the rules don’t do the right thing and behave oddly. And lastly, I’d still love to be able to see my mail remotely.
So I think the solution I’m going to come up with is with fetchmail pulling down my mail, running clam and spamassassin on it and then running procmail rules all over it to sort it nicely in different folders and finally passing it over to an IMAP on my system. And connect Thunderbird to it. Then set Thunderbird whenever I mark something as junk it would move it to a folder that Spamassassin would then process to add to it’s filters.
Overkill would be using amavisd-new with razor and dcc as well.
But eh… we’ll see how it goes.
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