On Friday 25 June 2004 19:04, Dennis Dryden wrote:
I'm getting about 98% spam at the moment and i was wondering if there was a quick and easy way to setup something some spam filtering software(like spam assassin). Will it involve setting up sendmail or anything scary like that?
Dennis
If you're an 'ordinary' home user the simplest approach is to spam-bin anything not coming from someone in your address book. Quite easy to do if you're using KMail - details on request.
I find Bayesian filters such as SpamAssassin and Bogofilter remove only about 80% of spam (I'm guessing - haven't checked lately), which still leaves a lot. If they can do better than that they're liable to tag wanted mail as spam from time to time, which can be inconvenient because it means wading through the stuff from time to time. Nonetheless it's worth adding one to do some of the grunt work. As with the above, you can add this to KMail on a client machine, or if you run your own mailserver you can do it there.
-- GT