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• Check out TMDA (Score:1)

  by Fletch (75)

  http://tmda.sourceforge.net [sourceforge.net]

  I'm going to try installing it on my new mail box RSN, and I've got anectdotal reports from a friend that uses it that it works pretty well.
  • Re:Check out TMDA (Score:3, Informative)

    by Matts (1087)

    The problem with this is you don't find out about the people who just throw their hands in the air and say "Sod it, why should I bother", and never respond to the TMDA check message. Unless TMDA logs this, and you check your logs (which would, of course, be full of spammers anyway).
    
    Instead try SpamAssassin [spamassassin.org]. It's pretty effective, and besides, I work on it ;-)
    • Re:Check out TMDA (Score:1)

      by pudge (1)

      Eudora filters catch most things for me. I get mail from many different mailboxes directly to my Mac, and don't want to proxy it all through another machine first, unless I have to.
      • Re:Check out TMDA (Score:2)

        by Matts (1087)

        Do you download via POP? It's in the TODO list to write a POP proxy server in POE that automatically does SpamAssassin filtering, and it might be fun to hack it together sometime soon.
        • Re:Check out TMDA (Score:1)

          by TorgoX (1933)

          In my to-do list is to finish up something I wrote that logs into your POP account, skims messages, kills ones that look like spam or viruses, and then leaves your mailbox otherwise untouched -- i.e., when you download messages later with your POP client, nothing is marked as already-read.

          I have the basic POP machinery working; I just need to sit down and write the what-is-spam rules around it.
• Curious (Score:1)

  by chaoticset (2105)

  Have you kept the same email address?

  I ask because I have recently switched to what I believe is going to be the last address I'm at for some length of time. I want to know how things will go.

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• SpamAssassin (Score:2)

  by gnat (29)

  SpamAssassin [taint.org] is awesome. I've been using it for a few weeks and with a couple of scoring tweaks I only get one or two pieces of spam a day now, instead of 40.

  --Nat