[ale] {Spam?} spam flood

[Dow Hurst]

I am beginning a small project to get all the emails I receive from into my 
online address book at Earthlink.  After I get that done, I am switching to 
blocking email by default unless it matches an email in my address book.  That 
is the highest level of blocking that Earthlink offers.  The only problem with 
this is having to check the "Suspect Email" folder for valid new emails.  But 
that is minor in my opinion now.  It is a "Drop by default" instead of "Allow 
by default" policy which is probably best now just like in firewalling, print 
servers, and so on.
Dow


Keith Hopkins wrote:
> Dow Hurst wrote:
> 
>> Now that the problem has been solved, I have a question about Mozilla:
>>
>> Can you overtrain a spamblocker easily?  I had to take a bunch of mail 
>> in the Junk folder, deselect it as Junk, and transfer it back to the 
>> Inbox over the weekend.  Seemed all the random words in spam now and 
>> possible other spammer tricks have confused the spam routines in Mozilla.
>> Dow
> 
> 
> I've had little luck with the Junk mail feature in Moz.  I get lots of 
> false positives, mostly from Ale, OpenMosix and SLUG, and I get way too 
> many junk mails that are not caught.  Then again, spamassassin isn't 
> catching them either.
> 
> -- 
> Found in Sydney,
>  Keith
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