On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 04:00:02PM -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor wrote:
On 12/30/2013 08:48 AM, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 30 December 2013, Mihamina Rakotomandimby sent:
SPAM is very subjective. I saw users subscribing to several newsletters for an event (say XMas) and then in February they're too lazy to cleanly unsubscribe: they just tag the message as SPAM, and they argue it's SPAM because they dont want to receive the messages anymore. Dumb, but true.
I've seen that often enough. When the "this is spam" button simply configures their own software, it's merely a dumb thing to do. But when their mail client's "spam button" *reports* the message as spam, it causes problems for the senders, who did nothing wrong.
I'm not doing that though, I don't intentionally sign-up for anything and the deliberately mark it as spam when I'm no longer interested. Every mailing list I've joined I have a genuine interest in, or it's a hobby of mine..(PremierGuitar.com.....GuitarFetish.com...etc) I see no real way that my email address got out TO the people who are using it as a spam receptacle!
You see no real way? If you post to a list or news group your email address is out there for the bots to harvest. Your address or your IP is in your headers even if you spoof it.
All I want is for the mail that I have no
intention of reading to be sent either to my spam folder...or else the trash! I guess for now it'll have to be me adding addresses to my filter, until I can get a handle on the Spam Assassin thing..or else I might have to just block everything..and then create filters for the stuff I DO want! but one way or the other...I intend on handling this spam issue before the end of the year!! Thank you all for your input...some of those ideas I'm definitely going to try out.....heck ANYTHING'S better than being "strapped" to your computer for hours at a time!
Your best bet is procmail + spam assassin. The trick is to call SA from sendmail, postfix or whatever you have on your system. If you call it from procmailrc the downloads will slow to a crawl.