John Summerfield spake the following on 4/10/2007 4:36 PM:
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Oh, having an email address dedicated to mailing lists helps. filtering on list-id helps: stuff that lands in INBOX is immediately suspect, and PINE is really good for cleaning out unwanted email without opening it. Probably MUTT is too, but I reckon it's a dog.
Pine ... Mutt ... Pfft. That is a job for procmail :)
Thus far, I've not discovered how users run procmail on imap servers where they don't have shell accounts.
bsides, my eyes are the final arbiter on what constitutes spam: I get one false positive in some thousands, but those false positives tend to be my stockbroker:-(
Since a lot of spam is stock spam, you almost have to whitelist your broker.