Thanks, you are right with your suggestions and I totally agree for "normal" spam.
However, in my case - I am an academic - I receive a lot of mails I consider spam that come eg from predatory academic journals that invite me to submit articles, and they send quite a bunch. They are not (yet?) caught by usual spam filters. What I want to achieve for those for example is to add a simple button in EXMH that when I have identified one such message, the sender email can be added to my spamassassin blacklist for example. I wonder whether this can be achieved easily/elegantly, or whether I'll need to sit down and write some lengthy script for that. THanks, Marc >>> Tom Lane said: >> Marc Baaden <[email protected]> writes: >> > As a perfectly content long-time EXMH user, I would like to improve my >> > spam handling. which is my number one pain point. >> > I have spamassassin installed and it filters successfully >> > a low amount of the spam. I think the spammers are just too active or >> > vary their credentials too often. So I was wondering, whether in >> > addition there is an easy way through exmh/nmh to add a sender to a >> > list to be automatically refiled to my spam folder as well. >> >> exmh/nmh are not really where to try to manage this. I use procmail >> with a bunch of recipes to detect spam and refile it to someplace >> appropriate. Even though said recipes have been tuned over years, >> they probably only have about a 90% success rate at separating spam >> from non-spam; don't expect perfection, and be wary of filing stuff >> straight to /dev/null. >> >> If you have control of your MTA's configuration, you can reject a whole >> lot of stuff on the basis of DNS blacklist services. I use both >> spamhaus.org and spamcop.net, and that blocks a ridiculously large amount >> of stuff, though not by any means everything. Requiring valid reverse DNS >> lookup is another very helpful technique. I also use greylist delays, >> although those delays can be very annoying in some cases, so I wouldn't >> recommend it unless your spam problem is REALLY bad. >> >> regards, tom lane >> Marc Baaden -- Dr. Marc Baaden - Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris mailto:[email protected] - http://www.baaden.ibpc.fr FAX: +33 15841 5026 - Tel: +33 15841 5176 ou +33 609 843217 _______________________________________________ Exmh-users mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/exmh-users
