On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 02:06:41PM -0500, David wrote:
Like all spam filters, that I know of, you have to train it. You have to mark emails as spam that you consider spam.
Yep.
Spam Assassin would be the same way I would think. I do not know of any spam filter program that already knows what email that *you* consider to be spam. Like virus scanners they look for patterns.
Yes. It learns pretty quickly; feed it the "probably spam" and "almost certainly" spam files at first; eventually all you'll have to add is what has slipped through.
If you don't want to get into system-wide spam scanning, and/or don't want to get into the complexities of Spam Assassin, you can get a pretty good Baysean filter with PopFILE for Linux.
As for TBird message filters. Those are designed to move messages that you want from your inbox to various folders. This message, for me, goes to <account_name>/Inbox/Fedora/Users
You often use the message filter in conjunction with your anti-spam solution--e.g., for PopFILE, have it modify the Subject line to include the string "[spam]", and then filter on that.
Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@dminet.com