Andrew has very kindly installed Active Spam Killer on our production mail server some time ago. As of late, I've noticed that some mail is getting through that really shouldn't. To that end, I've found a nice debugging technique for the rules that ASK uses. If you look at the headers for mail that makes your inbox, a header called X-ASK-Info will contain the name of the rule that was used to allow this message through. Handy feature and made me suscipicous of one of my regexes so it gave me a good head start on tracking down my problem.
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I've been using Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 as my MTA for my POP3 / IMAP mail accounts. It uses a Bayesian algorithm for junk mail filtering -- it takes a bit of "training" on the user's part, but most Bayesian filtering utilities claim at least 99.9% effectiveness in blocking spam after a short while. So far, I like it. Much better than trying to build my own rules.
# Posted by Will | July 24, 2004 1:38 PM
Yeah, I've only dabbled with Thunderbird a bit but I have liked what I have seen. One of the advantages of ASK is that it gets applied before my MUA gets the mail so it works if I am using my mail client or the dirt simple web mail interface
# Posted by Mark Mascolino | July 24, 2004 1:38 PM
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# Posted by Mark Mascolino | July 24, 2004 1:38 PM