"Monique Y. Herman" wrote:

> Have you considered running spamassassin or similar to cut down on
> this
> noise?
> 
> I run SA through procmail, then use tmda to look for the SA headers
> and
> route flagged mail to a spam mailbox.

I've thought about it.  I have some misgivings, simply because I'm tired
of getting any false positives at all.  (Previously I was using a
similar blacklisting filter which originally I had as procmail recipes
and then converted to a Python script.)  Another major issue is that
simply because of the mail volume, I'm reticent to spend additional
processing resources if I don't have to.  A started gravitating toward a
whitelisting system because of the minimal CPU work required per
received email (compared with, say, SpamAssassin or SpamBayes) and the
simplicity.  (Originally I was going to write my own minimal
whitelisting filter, but I found TMDA and realized it had everything I
wanted and much more.)

Even if I did eventually switch to a SA/TMDA combination, I think the
suggestion has merit.  Even for people with relatively low spam loads,
being able to automatically single out
not-delivered-but-possibly-interesting email automatically seems useful.
(In that case you'd interactively check the marked mail first more
attentively, then check the rest of it.)

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