Re: [Rmail] Fighting spam

[Eric Brown]

Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im> writes:

> Hello,
>
> with latest Rmail development, what is the simplest method to protect
> myself agaisnt spam ? THere are a few messages that are auto-magicallly
> labeled with a « spam » keyword but I can't find why it happens :)
>
> I need a way ton instruct this protector with other material to get him
> even better.
>
> Thank you for your help

Hi Xavier,

I see that you've already found:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RmailSpamprobe

But the other possibility is:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RmailSpamFilter

which might be tailored to catch the specific spam keyword that appears
in your headers.

I'm not aware of any integrated Rmail/spamfilter solution that makes it
act like those found in traditional GUIs, e.g. marking spam messages in
Rmail and then submitting them to an ever-improving spam filter.  (Of
course there are things like spamassassin, but it doesn't seem
integrated.)

In my own solution, I simply use the spam filter of my provider's web
interface (fastmail) and also use Gnus for filtering.

Clearly you are interested in Rmail solution and perhaps you're locked
to your provider. Just trying to explain one of the reasons that I don't
use Rmail and do use something else, though Rmail is a fine program.)

Best regards,
Eric