Almost 80% of my email is spam or viruses, by volume. That disturbs me.
Re:Which volume?
Robrt on 2003-07-20T01:46:18
Bytes.
rspier@bear ~/Mail$ du -k * | sort -n | tail -3
6108 spam-auto
106680 viruses
142776 all-mail
Re:SpamAssassin?
Robrt on 2003-07-23T16:30:28
Of course.Re:SpamAssassin?
WebDragon on 2003-07-23T17:13:47
Do you also have Vipul's Razor (v2) installed?
I've revised my prefs in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs to include
score RAZOR2_CHECK 3.00
...which bumps up the score a bit if it's already identified by razor as spam. Then a hotkey in mutt lets me pipe it to razor-report if it IS spam but wasn't identified yet by them.
The last thing I did was alter my website addresses (those visible from my website) such that they don't encourage spammers, and block/bounce mail at the server (thanks to zoneedit.com's mailforward) to some old 'expired' addresses at my domain that I no longer use.
So, my 'primary' e-mail address that I give everyone is no longer on my website, and whenever I sign up for stuff I use a unique address at my domain so that I can tell who gave it away.
;) Spam is now greatly reduced. I still get some, but the volume is nowhere NEAR what it used to be (some 20/day at least). I had 18 last week according to procmail's stats report.
Subject: [Procmail] Weekly Statistics for webdragon
Total Average Number Folder
----- ------- ------ ------
33168 4738 7 ~/mail/IN-Linux
92507 3854 24 ~/mail/IN-blackbox
8700788 181266 48/var/spool/mail/webdragon
649072 36059 18 spamblock
----- ------- ------
9475535 97685 97
The best part is, no false positives in months, and no spam has made it past the filter in months.
