Procmail for swen?

Jeff Kinz jkinz at kinz.org
Sun Sep 21 09:14:22 EDT 2003


On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 07:19:40PM -0400, Duane Morin wrote:
> Ok, I can't take it anymore.  Anybody got some procmail rules for killing 
> incoming swen mail?  I've got north antivirus but that's installed on my 
> windows machine -- I check 90% of my email on a linux console.

Procmail works great, I use it for sorting mail and doing a few other
things but I gave up using it for junkmail detection, (9spam/virii).

Maintaining the rules became a chore.

I installed bogofilter, a Bayesian mail filter, trained it on a large 
chunk of spam and non-junkmail and I haven't had any problems since.

Even the recent waves of Windows based virii pretty much left me
untouched (except for slowing down the web).

FAQ: http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/bogofilter-faq.html
There are other Bayesian systems available for Linux as well.

Good luck.
 

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