Reverse E-Mail Blockage.....

[Steven Stern]

On 12/28/2013 01:12 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Steven Stern
> <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com <mailto:subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>>
> wrote:
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>     On 12/28/2013 11:32 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
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>     > On 28/12/13 12:13, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
>     >>>
>     >> Yes Joachim this is EXACTLY what I was looking for!..Thank you so
>     >> much! My Inbox seems to be growing every day with more and more spam.
>     >> I literally spent a whole hour and a half ...JUST adding email
>     >> addresses to the "Block" list...and now that you've given me this
>     >> knowledge, I should just be able to let in what I need and everything
>     >> else will get tossed into the trash!..thanks so much! Happy New
>     Year!!
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> EGO II
>     >
>     > That's strange, all my mail comes through gmail and I rarely see any
>     > spam unless I go in and look at what they've filtered out. I only use
>     > Thunderbird filters to sort messages into categories/directories.
>     >
>     > Bob
>     >
>     >
>     Agreed...  I check my Gmail spam folder about once a week to see if it
>     had any false positives.  I gave up running my own mail server as Google
>     does a much better job.
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>     --
>     -- Steve
>     --
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> 
> I wonder what Google's secret is?  
> 
A huge base of mail, lots of engineers to throw at building tests, and
lots of compute power.

It can be done via spamassassin. I've successfully run large mail
systems based on clamav and spamassassin, but  for my purposes, I'm
happy to let Google do it.



-- 
-- Steve