Congratulations, you have FOUND THE SPAM!

[annathepiper]

So I've installed SpamAssassin on lodestone and am having various members of the household help me test it. So far it's working swimmingly -- it's missing some spam but the vast majority of it it's catching. Plus, it comes with a thing you can run to teach it whether stuff it doesn't catch is spam or not-spam. My Inbox in Outlook has been a LOT less cluttered ever since, and so far it hasn't tried to snag a single thing that ISN'T spam.

And I can't help but keep thinking of that old web page where you were supposed to "find the spam" and the only thing on the page was a picture of a big can of spam. ;)

Comments

[smeehrrr.livejournal.com]

Enjoy! (http://www.smalltime.com/findthespam.html)

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[annathepiper]

You're too good to me, Phil. ^_^ What has my life been without the Spam?!

[dianala.livejournal.com]

Some ahole finally tagged my address but good. Up to a couple weeks ago I was pretty spam-free, but now... I get 5-10 a day. Argh.

You are a god!

[imalion.livejournal.com]

I might actually start using my murk account again. *Grin* I think the spam to e-mail was something like 100-1.

YAY Anna!

Re: You are a god!

[annathepiper]

Awwww gosh, you're welcome! ^_^ Let me know if you need help testing it out... I did send mail around to the "murkworks" alias so you should have gotten that. I think that if those of us on that alias get it working well then I'll announce it to the users at large on the system.

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[annathepiper]

It's a pain in the ass. I've had nights recently (at least, pre-SpamAssassin) where I got 20-25 pieces of spam a day. :P

Now though I am REALLY happy with the lack of crap in my Outlook Inbox. I don't even mind going in and cleaning out the Spam folder every so often just as long as it doesn't get mixed in with my ACTUAL mail!

Where do you have your email account? Maybe you could install SpamAssassin for personal use... according to its web page you can install it just for your own use.

(I think Drizzle, the ISP with which I have my backup email account, has SpamAssassin installed site-wide. Whoot!)

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

Indeed, Drizzle has SpamAssassin.

When they first started using it, many emails were false-positive, but as they have gone along, the hits are 99% spam. Occasionally, when an email list I'm on has a discussion of spam, and what to do about it, those are tagged by SpamAssassin.

I just use procmail to send things to a folder, and I check it periodically.

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[annathepiper]

Whoot. :) I haven't had to set up SpamAssassin over there yet since my drizzle addy is not an address I use out on the web. But good to know!