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by G.A. Heath
Sun Mar 22, 2015 1:59 pm
Forum: Technical Tips, Questions & Discussions (Computers & Internet)
Topic: Fighting the spam email battle
Replies: 12
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Re: Fighting the spam email battle

I have spamassassin running on my pc that handles email, my primary account has around 100-300 or so spam messages get through to me a day depending on how active the spammers are. The problem is that while it filters the other 2000 or so spam messages it takes hours if I do not keep that machine up so that it can check the email every 10 minutes. Recently I recreated an account I used only for one specific "Gun Rights" group that swears they do not share your address with anyone, and I had deleted that email account years ago. Within 24 hours that account had 400 messages waiting, none of the email providers I access via pop3 and smtp have server side filtering in place for my accounts because I am afraid of their filters getting too aggressive.

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