Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:46:56 -0800 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: "Daniel A." <ldrada@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to filter the emails from this list Message-ID: <20060215134656.GM94023@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <5ceb5d550602150520t6f73d714wb9cbf2de85d56449@mail.gmail.com> References: <5ceb5d550602150520t6f73d714wb9cbf2de85d56449@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 02:20:59PM +0100, Daniel A. wrote: > ... > But how do I make sure that _every_ email to the gets filtered? Look for the "Delivered-To:" header. > I've noticed that all emails sent to the FreeBSD mailing lists get > suffixed with some text. Can I trust that this text wont change every > few weeks or so? You could do that, but I wouldn't recommend it; I certainly wouldn't consider that text to be appropriate input for that kind of filtering, and I would have no expectation that I'd need to let anyone know before I changed it. > How do you filter your emails? Actually, I only do a couple of binary filters. The first is at the MTA: I do what I can to decline to accept spam at that point. That takes care of 85 - 90% of the SMTP conversations my MTA receives. Mail that I see then gets categorized as either "spam" or otherwise, and if it's spam, I examine it to adjust the criteria for the first filter to reduce the probability that I'll ever see another such spam. (I also use similar criteria for a couple of other domains for which I'm postmaster.) The rest of the mail, I generally try to read and delete as fast as I can, first-in, first-out. Occasionally, I save a message or two. Peace, david (current hat: postmaster@freebsd.org) -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Mail filters, like sewers, need to be most restrictive at the point of entry. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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