On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 at 22:37 GMT, Erik Max Francis penned: > "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.) >
Any particular reason to keep it in the queue rather than routing it to a "possibly-interesting" mailbox? -- monique _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
