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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September 21st, 2005 at 7:21 pm
Have a look at dspam, too. It worked really perfectly in a setup I did at work after feeding some legit and spam mails to it which should be no problem in your case heh. I used postfix+amavisd-new+dspam/clamav and courier-imapd for imap access. I really didn’t expect such good results, since it was also my first attempt in dealing with an anti-spam software.
September 21st, 2005 at 8:43 pm
Hey,
Try bogofilter. Your proposed setup, with fetchmail+procmail is exactly what I do. clamav isn’t really worth the trouble, as bogofilter should start to pick up the viruses as well. I use courier-imapd, as well. I have a great way to correct the false-positives and false-negatives. I just drag the erroneous ones into special folders and bogofilter adjusts itself every night.
Dave
September 22nd, 2005 at 1:18 pm
My $0.02:
I’ve got fetchmail+procmail working w/ Spamassassin & Exim locally to a maildir. dovecot for (secure) IMAP, with squirrelmail over https for when I don’t have Evolution handy. I can also ssh in and use mutt. Works like a charm (I had dspam, but upgrading it caused it to freak out & I went back to SA, which I know well).
I’ve had clamav in the mix in the past, but don’t bother as I’m all linux (and I don’t open random things =).
I deal w/ false-positives/missed-spam as the others do - manually move them to special folders and a cronjob which runs sa-learn as needed.
HTH,
-b