Filters for .gif spam?

[Vaughn Treude]

Speaking of spam....
Since I switched to Thunderbird (1.5.0.7) I've been using the "junk" 
filter.  It only took about a week to get it trained.  Now it's putting 
about 95% of the spam in the "junk" folder.  It's only mis-identified 
legitimate emails as junk twice so far.

I haven't been nearly so lucky with my webmail.  I switched over much of 
my business correspondence to my webmail account with Deru (I use the 
"Horde" interface), which gets any and all messages addressed to 
nakota-software.com.  I know I get a lot more spam on that because there 
are bots out there harvesting my URL.  I've been blacklisting every 
piece of spam I've received for a couple of weeks but I don't think I'm 
getting any repeats.  I suppose I should figure out how to have it 
reject everything that's not on my whitelist, but that seems like a hassle.

Or I guess I could just set it to forward everything to a POP account, 
and let Thunderbird take care of it.

Vaughn


Darrin Chandler wrote:
> Kurt Granroth wrote:
>> Darrin Chandler wrote:
>>> I've seen a couple of those come through lately, but not too many. Are
>>> you greylisting?
>> No, I am not.  I'm too lazy to manage the upkeep of it.  I would always
>> prefer to do a lot of work up front and nothing afterwards than a steady
>> bit of little work.  My problem with greylisting is that it doesn't work
>> for the business notification type emails without some work.
>>
>> For instance, say I order from XYZ store for the first time and want to
>> get my receipt emailed to me.  I would have to modify my greylisting
>> setup to allow that email since there is no way that their automated
>> system will do the proper reply to get past it.  This would have to be
>> done for every business that I'm a customer to.  Not a lot of work...
>> but a little bit for a long time.
> 
> That should only be a problem for two circumstances that I can think of: 
> (1) You want the reply NOW, not in a little while, or (2) Their mail 
> system is horribly broken and won't retry properly.
> 
> Doing greylisting myself, I have seen both. It's never been nearly 
> enough of a problem to make me give it up. For me, situation (1) means 
> doing a little bit of work once in a great while. I don't often need the 
> reply RIGHT NOW. YMMV.
>