[Gllug] regular spam

[Andy Millar]

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 22:15 +0100, John Winters wrote:
> If you have control of your mail server, consider installing
> SpamAssassin and setting your MTA to bounce anything scoring more than,
> say, 20.  This greatly reduces the amount you even have to consider.
> Accept anything scoring less than 20, but put anything scoring more than
> 5 into a separate folder, flagged as being "Iffy.  Then use Mozilla
> Thunderbird or something with similar capabilities to provide a final
> filter.  In the end you'll have very little if any getting through to
> your inbox.

Or, if you want to avoid the full time job that is maintaining your spam
filter, you can opt to pay someone else to do it!

I pay Postini (www.postini.com), who are now unfortunately owned by
Google, around £3 per month per mailbox to keep my spam at bay. They
even do a good job of it.

Andy
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