Hi
Some people recently moved to Mail were asking about how to filter at
a more comprehensive level than seemed to available in the Rules
section in Mail. Subscribers to TidBits will have seen the cross
reference to Hawk Wings but those who don't subscribe may want to
look here:
http://www.timgaden.com/hawkwings/2005/08/08/mail-act-on-getting-
sorted-saving-time/
As to my own concerns about recent changes in dotmac spam behaviour,
it remains a concern but one that probably seems piffling against the
usual / normal scale of spam infestations. Certainly my Windows-bound
friends wonder what I am going on about and I suppose the period of
grace is up for my dotmac sanctuary. Part of the concern though is
that it might have been a leak at the dotmac end and the news that
similar patterns are occurring with other providers at least makes me
feel easier about restructuring my dotmac account to try to obtain a
spam-free existence again. I have dotmac for personal stuff and f2s
(IMAP) for business stuff and, for me, it seems to be the case that
dotmac is taking far more hits than the f2s, sometimes 15-20 per day.
I also wonder if it is possible for invaders to get behind the
aliases I use as, though the spam goes chiefly to the main (closed)
address, it often goes to the aliases I use as well.
Though most of the spamming addresses appear to be bogus (and
bouncing just gets a non-delivery message) I will continue to adhere
to the policy of sending the messages to spam control at dotmac with
expanded headers and will consider setting up a new account when it
comes up for review later this year, which also fits well with the
limitation on being able to convert individual accounts to family
accounts, mid contract.
Thanks for the comments to date, I am interested to learn more about
the battle to combat as well as to manage spam if this is considered
an appropriate subject to pursue in this forum.
Cheers
Drew
On 21 Feb 2006, at 10:33, Tim Stephens wrote:
Well, I ended up going the whole hog and just setting up a proper
mail server...
... I don't suppose this would be very useful if you
routinely read your email on multiple computers mind you.
I have done the same thing. You can access your mail from different
computers by:
1) Using ssh or some similar method to read your mail on your
server (my preferred method since it means that I can read my home
mail form work (ahem...))
2) Run a pop or IMAP server on your mailserver (i.e. it collects
your mail from your ISP accounts, then you collect the mail from it
on whatever computer you choose to use)
- Of course, these methods rely on your server being switched on
and connected to the net, which may not be desirable to some.
Good quality firewalls (hardware and software) will prevent any
intruders, and a non-Microsoft OS is less vulnerable if kept up-to-
date.
3) Set fetchmail on your mail email computer/server and use webmail
from the others (although this doesn't get round the spam problem).
Note that the fetchmail project has moved their site to http://
fetchmail.berlios.de/. ESR's site still comes top in the Google
search, but the version of fetchmail available there is out of
date. 6.3.2 is current at the moment.
Cheers,
Tim
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